Debating Authenticity Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective 1st Edition by Thomas Fillitz, Jamie Saris ISBN 978-0857454966 085745496X

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ISBN 10: 085745496X

ISBN 13: 978-0857454966

Author:  Thomas Fillitz, , A. Jamie Saris

The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is produced in and through discourses about authenticity. Incorporating case studies from four continents, the topics reach from art and colonialism to exoticism-primitivism, film, ritual and wilderness. Some contributors emphasise the dichotomy between the academic use of the term and the one deployed in public spaces and political projects. All, however, consider authenticity as something that can only be understood ethnographically, and not as a simple characteristic or category used to distinguish some behaviors, experiences or material things from other less authentic versions.

 

Table of contents: 

Part II. Moral Discourses of Authenticity
Chapter 3: Authentic Wilderness: The Production and Experience of Nature in America

Chapter 4: The Moral Economy of Authenticity and the Invention of Traditions in Franche-Comté (France)

Chapter 5: ‘Oh, That’s So Typical!’ Discussing Some Spanish ‘Authentic’ Essential Traits

Part III. Authenticity: Popular and Academic Discourses
Chapter 6: Is Form Really Primary or, What Makes Things Authentic? Sociality and Materiality in Afro-Brazilian Ritual and Performance

Chapter 7: A Cultural Search for Authenticity: Questioning Primitivism and Exotic Art

Chapter 8: Wooden Pillars and Mural Paintings in the Saudi South-west: Notes on Continuity, Authenticity and Artistic Change in Regional Traditions

Chapter 9: True to Life: Authenticity and the Photographic Image

Part IV. Entangled Spaces of Authenticity
Chapter 10: Questions of Authenticity and Legitimacy in the Work of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)

Chapter 11: Constructing Culture through Shared Location, Bricolage and Exchange: The Case of Gypsies and Roma

Chapter 12: Cultural Regimes of Authenticity and Contemporary Art of Africa

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