Sense and essence : heritage and the cultural production of the real /

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Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- (Editor), Port, Mattijs van de, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Material mediations ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Originality (Aesthetics)
Material culture.
Social Identification
Ethnicité.
Identité collective.
Originalité (Esthétique)
Culture matérielle.
ethnicity.
group identity.
material culture (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnicity
Group identity
Material culture
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Heritage dynamics : politics of authentication, aesthetics of persuasion and the cultural production of the real / Mattijs van de Port and Birgit Meyer
  • Aesthetics as form and force : notes on the shaping of Pataxó Indian bodies / André Werneck de Andrade Bakker
  • Intangible heritage, tangible controversies : the baiana and the acarajé as boundary objects in contemporary Brazil / Bruno Reinhardt
  • Swinging between the material and the immaterial : Brazilian cultural politics and the authentication of Afro-Brazilian heritage / Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi
  • "Reporting the past" : news history and the formation of the Sunday Times Heritage Project / Duane Jethro
  • Scaffolding heritage : transient architectures and temporalizing formations in Luanda / Ruy Llera Blanes
  • Corpo-reality TV : media, body, and the authentication of 'African heritage' / Marleen de Witte
  • "Heated discussions are necessary" : the creative engagement with Sankofa in modern Ghanaian arts / Rhoda Woets
  • Iconic objects : making diasporic heritage, Blackness, and Whiteness in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol
  • Ascertaining the future memory of our time : Dutch institutions collecting relics of national tragedy / Irene Stengs
  • Heritage under construction : boundary objects, scaffolding, and anticipation / David Chidester
  • Can anything become heritage? / David Berliner
  • Heritage as process / Ciraj Rassool.

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