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Sense and Essence : Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real / ed. by Mattijs van de Port, Birgit Meyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785339394
  • 9781785339417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • GN495.6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Heritage Dynamics Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real -- 1 Aesthetics as Form and Force -- 2 Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies -- 3 Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial -- 4 ‘Reporting the Past’ -- 5 Scaffolding Heritage -- 6 Corpo-Reality TV -- 7 ‘Heated Discussions Are Necessary’ -- 8 Iconic Objects -- 9 Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time -- Concluding Comments -- 10 Heritage under Construction -- 11 Can Anything Become Heritage? -- 12 Heritage as Process -- Index
Summary: 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 denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Heritage Dynamics Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real -- 1 Aesthetics as Form and Force -- 2 Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies -- 3 Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial -- 4 ‘Reporting the Past’ -- 5 Scaffolding Heritage -- 6 Corpo-Reality TV -- 7 ‘Heated Discussions Are Necessary’ -- 8 Iconic Objects -- 9 Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time -- Concluding Comments -- 10 Heritage under Construction -- 11 Can Anything Become Heritage? -- 12 Heritage as Process -- Index

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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 denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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