Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-78533-940-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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"This is an extensive and influential collection that whilst reviewing I took with me to the field, twice! It is a book to ponder and to return to. It is cohesively edited..., volume nine in Berghahn's Material Mediations series and a fantastic and stimulating addition...this powerful and detailed volume on the affective nature of heritage needs to be read and re-read, digested and extensively travelled with." * Journal of Heritage Tourism"Considering that we all know the world we live in is a 'construct', how are we convinced to accept it as real and act accordingly? And how is heritage, which is always a social construct, made real through aesthetics of persuasion and politics of authenticity? By addressing these questions in richly varied ethnographic case studies, this volume not only makes a significant contribution to an issue that is of wider interest to the social sciences, it also makes heritage studies as a field highly relevant to the social sciences." * Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
46 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-940-0 (9781785339400)
DOI
10.3167/9781785339394
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Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
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1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
Available for download
Birgit Meyer | Mattijs van de Port
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
Available for download
Persons
Birgit Meyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She is co-editor of Material Religion. Her recent publications include Aesthetic Formations: Religion, Media and the Senses (ed., Palgrave 2009), Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality (ed. with Dick Houtman, Fordham 2012), Sensational Movies: Video Vision and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), and Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (ed. with Maruska Svasek, Berghahn, 2016).
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real
Mattijs van de Port & Birgit Meyer
Chapter 1. ?Aesthetics as Form and Force: Notes on the Shaping of Pataxo Indian Bodies
Andre Werneck de Andrade Bakker
Chapter 2. Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies: The Baiana and the Acaraje as Boundary Objects in Contemporary Brazil
Bruno Reinhardt
Chapter 3. Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial: Brazilian Cultural Politics and the Authentication of Afro-Brazilian Heritage
Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi
Chapter 4. 'Reporting the Past': News History and the Formation of the Sunday Times Heritage Project
Duane Jethro
Chapter 5. Scaffolding Heritage: Transient Architectures and Temporalizing Formations in Luanda
Ruy Llera Blanes
Chapter 6. Corpo-Reality TV: Media, Body, and the Authentication of 'African Heritage'
Marleen de Witte
Chapter 7. Heated Discussions Are Necessary. The Creative Engagement with Sankofa in Modern Ghanaian Art
Rhoda Woets
Chapter 8. Iconic Objects: Making Diasporic Heritage, Blackness and Whiteness in the Netherlands
Markus Balkenhol
Chapter 9. Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time: Dutch Institutions Collecting Relics of National Tragedy
Irene Stengs
Concluding Comments
Chapter 10. Heritage Under Construction: Boundary Objects, Scaffolding and Anticipation
David Chidester
Chapter 11. Can Anything Become Heritage?
David Berliner
Chapter 12. Heritage as Process
Ciraj Rassool
Index
Preface
Introduction: Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real
Mattijs van de Port & Birgit Meyer
Chapter 1. ?Aesthetics as Form and Force: Notes on the Shaping of Pataxo Indian Bodies
Andre Werneck de Andrade Bakker
Chapter 2. Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies: The Baiana and the Acaraje as Boundary Objects in Contemporary Brazil
Bruno Reinhardt
Chapter 3. Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial: Brazilian Cultural Politics and the Authentication of Afro-Brazilian Heritage
Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi
Chapter 4. 'Reporting the Past': News History and the Formation of the Sunday Times Heritage Project
Duane Jethro
Chapter 5. Scaffolding Heritage: Transient Architectures and Temporalizing Formations in Luanda
Ruy Llera Blanes
Chapter 6. Corpo-Reality TV: Media, Body, and the Authentication of 'African Heritage'
Marleen de Witte
Chapter 7. Heated Discussions Are Necessary. The Creative Engagement with Sankofa in Modern Ghanaian Art
Rhoda Woets
Chapter 8. Iconic Objects: Making Diasporic Heritage, Blackness and Whiteness in the Netherlands
Markus Balkenhol
Chapter 9. Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time: Dutch Institutions Collecting Relics of National Tragedy
Irene Stengs
Concluding Comments
Chapter 10. Heritage Under Construction: Boundary Objects, Scaffolding and Anticipation
David Chidester
Chapter 11. Can Anything Become Heritage?
David Berliner
Chapter 12. Heritage as Process
Ciraj Rassool
Index