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May 21, 2008
Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, eds. Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 632 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780822338949)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.49

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“Is it real?” asks a French journalist as reported by contributing author, Howard Morphy, in the third section of the Museum Frictions anthology. She is watching a ceremonial performance by Yolngu people at the opening of the new National Museum of Australia in 2001 (489). Such a question, or the more pointed variation “What is real in a museum?” underlies the whole of this extensive (almost daunting) volume. It is a question that has already...