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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: DeBlock, Hugo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789200430; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789200430?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hugo DeBlock.

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.