Re-Enacting the Past - Heritage, Materiality and Performance (Hardcover)

What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture and are of growing importance to heritage studies. As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms: from the annual 'Viking Moot' festival in Denmark drawing thousands of participants and spectators, to the (re)staged war photography of An-My Le, to the Titanic Memorial Cruise commemorating the centennial of the ill-fated voyage, to the symbolic retracing of the Berlin Wall across the city on 9 November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of its toppling. Re-enactments involve the sensuousness of bodily experience and engagement, the exhilarating yet precarious combination of imagination with 'historical fact', in-the-moment negotiations between and within temporalities, and the compelling drive to re-make, or re-presence, the past. As such, re-enactments present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Mads Daugbjerg • Rivka Eisner • Britta Knudsen
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-94186-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Performance art Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-94186-7
Barcode:	9781138941861

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