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Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, Band 9 1. Aufl.

von: Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port
37,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.07.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9781785339417
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	350

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Preface
 <a>Introduction: Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real</a> Mattijs van de Port & Birgit Meyer
 Chapter 1.  Aesthetics as Form and Force: Notes on the Shaping of Pataxó Indian Bodies André Werneck de Andrade Bakker
 Chapter 2. Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies: The Baiana and the Acarajé 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

Autorenportrait

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 <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SvasekCreativity">Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe</a> (ed. with Maruška Svašek, Berghahn, 2016).