Creating Authenticity

Language: English

Published by Sidestone Press Nov 2013, 2013

9088902054 / 9789088902055

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -¿Authenticity¿ and authentication is at the heart of museums¿ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past.Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions.Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves. How do we interact with questions of authenticity and authentication when we curate, study artefacts, collect, repatriate, and make (re)presentations The contributing authors illustrate the divergent nature in which the authentic is brought into play, deconstructed and operationalized. Authenticity, the book argues, is an expression of a desire that is equally troubled as it is resilient.Contents:Culture Sketching: The Authenticity Quest in Ethnographic Museums: An IntroductionDr. Alexander GeurdsReal, Fake or a Combination Examining the Authenticity of a Mesoamerican Mosaic SkullMartin E. BergerWhen is Authentic Situating Authenticity in the Itineraries of ObjectsProf. Rosemary JoyceAuthentic Forgeries Prof. Oliver WatsonFrom Lukas to Liefkes Age and Authenticity of Gold Jewellery from Sumba, IndonesiaFrancine BrinkgreveThe Real Stuff: Authenticity and Photography from East Greenland in the NetherlandsDr. Cunera BuijsAlternative Authenticities (and Inauthenticities)Prof. Sally PriceAuthenticity and Curatorial PracticeDr. Laura N.K. Van BroekhovenBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 178 pp. Englisch.

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Title
Creating Authenticity
Author
Alexander Geurds
Publisher
Sidestone Press Nov 2013
Publication year
2013
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
9088902054
ISBN 13
9789088902055
Item weight
401 grams
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257x182x12 mm

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