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Thomas Fillitz (Ed.) - Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective - 9780857454966 - V9780857454966
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Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

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Description for Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Fillitz, Thomas; Saris, A. Jamie. Num Pages: 276 pages, 36 ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 186 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857454966
SKU
V9780857454966
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99-1

About Thomas Fillitz (Ed.)
Thomas Fillitz is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He has been a visiting professor at the Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille-1 (2001, 2003), at the Université Lumière Lyon-2 (2008), and at Université Paris Descartes (2011).

Reviews for Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
"Debating Authenticity is an authentic representation of the state of play in contemporary anthropology."  ·  American Anthropologist “Debating Authenticity presents the reader with a rich collection of ethnographic case studies, unpacking the complexity of the concept in various social settings across the globe.”  ·  The Australian Journal of Anthropology

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