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The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by
investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.
Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the
major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was
adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on
architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia.
Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly
redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local
concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial
discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural
heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based
on representative case studies presented by art historians,
architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany,
Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations
and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit,
Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin,
and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the
processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They
also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key
analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation,
transformation, and, in some cases, refusal.
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