Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port, 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 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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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-20
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaterial Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Antal sidor350
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785339400

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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 Maruška Svašek, Berghahn, 2016).

List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the RealMattijs van de Port & Birgit MeyerChapter 1.  Aesthetics as Form and Force: Notes on the Shaping of Pataxó Indian BodiesAndré Werneck de Andrade BakkerChapter 2. Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies: The Baiana and the Acarajé as Boundary Objects in Contemporary BrazilBruno ReinhardtChapter 3. Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial: Brazilian Cultural Politics and the Authentication of Afro-Brazilian HeritageMaria Paula Fernandes AdinolfiChapter 4. 'Reporting the Past': News History and the Formation of the Sunday Times Heritage ProjectDuane JethroChapter 5. Scaffolding Heritage: Transient Architectures and Temporalizing Formations in LuandaRuy Llera BlanesChapter 6. Corpo-Reality TV: Media, Body, and the Authentication of ‘African Heritage’Marleen de WitteChapter 7. Heated Discussions Are Necessary. The Creative Engagement with Sankofa in Modern Ghanaian ArtRhoda WoetsChapter 8. Iconic Objects: Making Diasporic Heritage, Blackness and Whiteness in the NetherlandsMarkus BalkenholChapter 9. Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time: Dutch Institutions Collecting Relics of National TragedyIrene StengsConcluding CommentsChapter 10. Heritage Under Construction: Boundary Objects, Scaffolding and AnticipationDavid ChidesterChapter 11. Can Anything Become Heritage?David BerlinerChapter 12. Heritage as ProcessCiraj RassoolIndex

“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