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

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Some of you had trouble with the link for Cory Kratz's interview yesterday,
please try this one:

https://campanthropology.org/2025/05/05/
corinne-kratz-on-her-book-rhetorics-of-value/

Best,
Ilana

On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM Ilana Gershon <imgershon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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