Foreword / Lynn Szwaja and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto xi

Preface: Museum Frictions: A Project History / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz xv

Introduction: Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations / Corinne A. Kratz and Ivan Karp 1

Part 1. Exhibitionary Complexes

Exhibitionary Complexes / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 35

Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture / Tony Bennett 46

The Reappearance of the Authentic / Martin Hall 70

Document: 5:29:24 AM / Joseph Masco 102

Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes / Leslie Witz 107

Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) / Andrea Fraser 135

World Heritage and Cultural Economics / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 161

Document: The U.S. Department of Retro, The Onion 203

Part 2. Tactical Museologies

Tactical Museologies / Gustavo Buntinx and Ivan Karp 207

Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery / Gustavo Buntinx 219

Document: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums 247

Document: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts, Association of Art Museum Directors 250

Document: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director, Vicente Razo 253

Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh / Ingrid Muan 257

Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits / Ciraj Rassool 286

Community Museums and Global Connections: The Union of Community Museums in Oaxaca / Cuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales 322

Part 3. Remapping the Museum

Remapping the Museum / Corinne A. Kratz and Ciraj Rassool 347

The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park / David Bunn 357

Document: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa 392

Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery / Fath Davis Ruffins 394

Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition "Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade" / Christine Mullen Kreamer 435

Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia / Howard Morphy 469

Document: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista A. Thompson 500

The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices / Fred Myers 504

Bibliography 537

Contributors 577

Index 583