Creating authenticity authentication processes in ethnographic museums / edited by Alexander Geurds & Laura Van Broekhoven.
| Other author | Geurds, Alexander, 1974- |
| Other author | Broekhoven, Laura N. K. van, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden [Netherlands] : Sidestone Press, |
| Description | vii, 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Authentication processes in ethnographic museums |
| Series | Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 42 Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 42. ^A1262082 |
| Contents | Preface -- Culture sketching: the authenticity quest in ethnographic museums : an introduction / Alexander Geurds -- Real, fake or a combination? : examining the authenticity of a Mesoamerican mosaic skull / Martin E. Berger -- When is authentic? : situating authenticity in the itineraries of objects / Rosemary Joyce -- Authentic forgeries? / Oliver Watson -- From Lukas to Liefkes? : age and authenticity of gold jewelery from Sumba, Indonesia / Francine Brinkgreve -- The real stuff : authenticity and photography from East Greenland in the Netherlands / Cunera Buijs -- Alternative authenticities (and inauthenticities) / Sally Price -- Authenticity and curatorial practice / Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven -- List of contributors and addresses. |
| Summary | "'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. 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. 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."--Publisher's website. |
| General note | "Published in cooperation with the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014416087 |
| ISBN | 9789088902055 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9088902054 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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