Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

By: Birgit Meyer (Editor), Mattijs van de Port (Editor)

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Paperback | 20 July 2018

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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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"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." â¢ 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." â¢ Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia

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