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Artifak : Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu / Hugo DeBlock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789200423
  • 9781789200430
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.99595
LOC classification:
  • N72.T68 D43 2019
  • N72.T68 D43 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Art and Commodity in Vanuatu -- Chapter 1. Art, Anthropology, and Tourism -- Chapter 2. Arts of Vanuatu -- Chapter 3. Making Authenticity -- Chapter 4. Selling Authenticity -- Chapter 5. Commodities and Authenticity -- Chapter 6. Museums -- Conclusion. Artifak: The Value of Art in Vanuatu -- References -- Index
Summary: In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Art and Commodity in Vanuatu -- Chapter 1. Art, Anthropology, and Tourism -- Chapter 2. Arts of Vanuatu -- Chapter 3. Making Authenticity -- Chapter 4. Selling Authenticity -- Chapter 5. Commodities and Authenticity -- Chapter 6. Museums -- Conclusion. Artifak: The Value of Art in Vanuatu -- References -- Index

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In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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