{"product_id":"creating-authenticity-von-alexander-geurds-laura-van-broekhoven-hrsg","title":"Creating Authenticity","description":"\u003cp\u003e¿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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Culture Sketching: The Authenticity Quest in Ethnographic Museums: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Dr. Alexander Geurds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Real, Fake or a Combination? Examining the Authenticity of a Mesoamerican Mosaic Skull\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Martin E. Berger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When is Authentic? Situating Authenticity in the Itineraries of Objects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Prof. Rosemary Joyce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Authentic Forgeries?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Prof. Oliver Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Lukas to Liefkes? Age and Authenticity of Gold Jewellery from Sumba, Indonesia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Francine Brinkgreve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Real Stuff: Authenticity and Photography from East Greenland in the Netherlands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Dr. Cunera Buijs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alternative Authenticities (and Inauthenticities)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Prof. Sally Price\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Authenticity and Curatorial Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Dr. Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789088902055\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9789088902055","offer_id":39456857948253,"sku":"9789088902055","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f6c52bfb-5a28-4032-be73-5f1887475df3.jpg?v=1776497687","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/creating-authenticity-von-alexander-geurds-laura-van-broekhoven-hrsg","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}