[Linganth] Cory Kratz's book, Rhetorics of Value, out this week

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted that CaMP anthropology blog gets to celebrate Cory Kratz's
new book, Rhetorics of Value, with an interview conducted by Howard Morphy
on the blog.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *Rhetorics of Value*, Corinne A. Kratz explores how
exhibition design creates and conveys values that have the potential to
touch, educate, and engage visitors. Drawing on case studies from the
Victoria and Albert Museum, museums in South Africa and Kenya, a Hawaiian
resort hotel, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American
History and Culture, among others, Kratz shows how exhibits help shape and
narrate cultural categories, values, and histories while provoking
questions and evoking memories and experiences. She crosses contexts to
consider ethnographic, history, and art exhibits in national and community
museums and other display settings. Through these examples, Kratz traces
how exhibition designers combine objects, texts, images, lighting, audio,
space, and narratives to craft a complex, multilayered communicative form
that visitors experience as they move through museums. By investigating the
relationship between audience reception and exhibition design strategies,
Kratz contends that through design, exhibits can shape the ways we know,
the stories we tell, and our contours of meaning and engagement.
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