| ISBN |
9780857454966 (hardback) |
| Meeting |
Sokrates-Erasmus Intensive Programme (Seminar) (2006 : University of Vienna) |
| Title |
Debating authenticity : concepts of modernity in anthropological perspective / edited by Thomas Filitz and A. Jamie Saris. |
| Portion of title |
Concepts of modernity in anthropological perspective |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
New York : Berghahn Books, c2012. |
| New York Berghahn Books, 2013. |
| ©2013 |
| Description |
x, 247 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"The contributions to this volume were presented at a ten-day Sokrates-Erasmus Intensive Programme in August 2006 at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna" --acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt I. Authenticity and Authenticating -- 1. Revisiting `Culture, Genuine and Spurious': Reflections on Icons and Politics in Ireland / A. Jamie Saris -- 2. Deceptive Tentacles of the Authenticating Mind: On Authenticity and Some Other Notions That are Good for Absolutely Nothing / Rajko Mursic -- Pt II. Moral Discourses of Authenticity -- 3. Authentic Wilderness: The Production and Experience of Nature in America / Lawrence J. Taylor -- 4. The Moral Economy of Authenticity and the Invention of Traditions in Franche-Comte (France) / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- 5. `Oh, That's So Typical!' Discussing Some Spanish `Authentic' Essential Traits / Jorge Grau Rebollo -- Pt III. Authenticity: Popular and Academic Discourses -- 6. Is Form Really Primary or, What Makes Things Authentic? Sociality and Materiality in Afro-Brazilian Ritual and Performance / Inger Sjorslev -- 7. A Cultural Search for Authenticity: Questioning Primitivism and Exotic Art / Paul van der Grijp -- 8. Wooden Pillars and Mural Paintings in the Saudi South-west: Notes on Continuity, Authenticity and Artistic Change in Regional Traditions / Andre Gingrich -- 9. True to Life: Authenticity and the Photographic Image / Marcus Banks -- Pt IV. Entangled Spaces of Authenticity -- 10. Questions of Authenticity and Legitimacy in the Work of Henri Gaden (1867--1939) / Roy Dilley -- 11. Constructing Culture through Shared Location, Bricolage and Exchange: The Case of Gypsies and Roma / Judith Okely -- 12. Cultural Regimes of Authenticity and Contemporary Art of Africa / Thomas Fillitz. |
| Summary |
"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 emphasize 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. " --back cover. |
| Additional form available |
Also issued online. |
| Subjects |
Anthropology -- Philosophy -- Congresses |
| Authenticity (Philosophy) -- Congresses |
| Anthropology -- Philosophy |
| Authenticity (Philosophy) |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Filitz, Thomas (editor of compilation.) |
| Saris, A. Jamie (editor of compilation.) |
| Other Corporate Bodies |
University of Vienna |
| Other meeting name |
Sokrates-Erasmus Intensive Programme (Seminar) (2006 : University of Vienna) |
| Call number |
301.01 SOK |
