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Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museums / alexander Geurds ; Laura Van Broekhoven.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ; 42.Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789088902062
  • 9088902062
  • 1306408474
  • 9781306408479
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museumsDDC classification:
  • 301 22
LOC classification:
  • GN
  • GN36.U62
Online resources:
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 t.
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'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 t.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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