TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geurds,Alexander
AU  - Van Broekhoven,Laura
TI  - Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museums
T2  - Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
SN  - 9789088902062
AV  - GN 
U1  - 301 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Sidestone Press
KW  - Ethnological museums and collections
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Regional Studies
KW  - Sociology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - '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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