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Debating Authenticity - Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective (Paperback)
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Debating Authenticity - Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective (Paperback)
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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.
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