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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Balkenhol, Markus,; Berliner, David,; Blanes, Ruy Llera,; Chidester, David,; Fernandes Adinolfi, Maria Paula,; Jethro, Duane,; Meyer, Birgit,; Port, Mattijs van de,; Rassool, Ciraj,; Reinhardt, Bruno,; Stengs, Irene,; Werneck de Andrade Bakker, André,; Witte, Marleen de,; Woets, Rhoda,
• HerausgeberIn: Meyer, Birgit,; Port, Mattijs van de,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339417; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339417?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port.

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.