01755nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003100001900044245005500063856004100118300001200159490000700171520140600178022001301584       2007                            d1 aMichael Kammen00aA Transnational Museum World of "Intangible Pasts"  uhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/30031629  a447-4520 v353 aThis is the third volume in a series of museum- and exhibition-related essays  built upon a significant sequence of major conferences. In 1991 Ivan Karp  and Steven D. Lavine edited Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of  Museum Display followed a year later by Karp and others editing Museums  and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture, both published by the Smith- sonian Institution Press. The present work evolved through considerable  brainstorming at several gatherings held between 2001 and 2005, generously  supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Whereas the first two volumes  privileged museums in the United States and Western Europe, this one is  primarily oriented to "Third World" museums, and transnational connections  and comparisons. The authors are primarily anthropologists, sociologists, and  historians of art. Although only one contributors might strictly be called an  Americanist-Fath Davis Ruffins, a senior curator at the National Museum of  American History in Washington-the project has significance for historians  of American culture and politics as well as public historians, and should be  placed alongside Thomas Bender s edited volume, Rethinking American History  in a Global Age (2002) and other works that have appeared calling for greater  attention to Atlantic history and what Akira Iriye and others have designated  as international history.  a00487511