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Author:   Corinne A. Kratz
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.445kg
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9781478030652

ISBN 10:   1478030658
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations  ix Acknowledgments  xv 1. Looking into the Void: Exhibition Design and Communication  1 2. Rhetorics of Value: Fashioning Worth and Meaning through Cultural Display  23 3. From Tippoo’s Tiger to Kauai Lagoons: Constituting Authorities, Defining Diversities, and Poetics of Similarity and Difference (co-authored with Ivan Karp)  65 4. What Makes Exhibitions Ethnographic?  101 5. Portable Technologies: Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits and African Museums  137 6. Redesigning Popular Histories and Facing Race Through Exhibition  171 7. Alchemies and Encounters in Exhibit Design and Communication  211 Appendix A. The Riddle of Exhibit Design: Essential but Overlooked  239 Appendix B. The Field of Visitor Studies and Exhibit Design  245 Notes  249 References  299 Index

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“Rhetorics of Value makes a major contribution to the theory of museum exhibitions by focusing on the relationship between the design of exhibitions and the way they are open to interpretation and their impact. Covering a diverse set of exhibitions, this important book will engage with a wide audience and will influence discourse in museum studies, cultural studies, African studies, and anthropology more generally.” -- Howard Morphy, author of * Museums, Infinity, and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities *

“Rhetorics of Value makes a major contribution to the theory of museum exhibitions by focusing on the relationship between the design of exhibitions and the way they are open to interpretation and their impact. Covering a diverse set of exhibitions, this important book will engage with a wide audience and will influence discourse in museum studies, cultural studies, African studies, and anthropology more generally.” - Howard Morphy, author of (Museums, Infinity, and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities) “A lifetime of research and reflection comes together in this richly conceived book. This is a timely addition to critical museum studies, a field that has evolved with and thanks to Corinne A. Kratz. She brings her perspective as ethnographer, curator, and visitor to a stunning range of exhibitions with theoretical sophistication and a clear moral compass.” - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Author Information

Corinne A. Kratz is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Emerita at Emory University and Research Associate of the Museum of International Folk Art. She is coeditor of Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition and Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women’s Initiation.

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