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
Portable Technologies: Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits and African Museums Available to Purchase
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Published:March 2025
2025. "Portable Technologies: Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits and African Museums", Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond, Corinne A. Kratz
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Chapter 5 continues to explore questions related to exhibition genres and design, relocating them to the African continent to see how design-based genres are adapted and redefined while traveling in different postcolonial settings. Considering exhibitions in South Africa and Kenya, the chapter suggests that dynamics between ethnography and history in exhibits and related design resources play out differently in the two countries, as do visitor expectations and understandings.
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