Sense and Essence : : Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real /

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of 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

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