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Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museums /

'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneeri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Geurds, Alexander, Van Broekhoven, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2013.
Colección:Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ; 42.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Culture sketching: the authenticity quest in ethnographic museums : an introduction / Alexander Geurds
  • Real, fake or a combination? : examining the authenticity of a Mesoamerican mosaic skull / Martin E. Berger
  • When is authentic? : situating authenticity in the itineraries of objects / Rosemary Joyce
  • Authentic forgeries? / Oliver Watson
  • From Lukas to Liefkes? : age and authenticity of gold jewelery from Sumba, Indonesia / Francine Brinkgreve
  • The real stuff : authenticity and photography from East Greenland in the Netherlands / Cunera Buijs
  • Alternative authenticities (and inauthenticities) / Sally Price
  • Authenticity and curatorial practice / Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven
  • List of contributors and addresses.