Material Culture and Authenticity

2020-05-26

This book provides an original and revealing study into engagements with objects that are not what they are claimed and presumed to be and, subsequently, are believed to betray their makers as well as users.

Author: Magdalena Craciun

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000189551

Category: Social Science

Page: 192

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The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this mirror? This book provides an original and revealing study into engagements with objects that are not what they are claimed and presumed to be and, subsequently, are believed to betray their makers as well as users. Drawing upon an ethnography of fake branded garments in Turkey and Romania, Material Culture and Authenticity shows how people can make authentic positions for themselves in and through fake objects.The book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of anthropology, material culture and cultural studies as well as to general readers interested in ethnographic alternatives to biographies of famous fakers and fakes.
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Material Culture and Authenticity

2014

This book provides an original and revealing study into engagements with objects that are not what they are claimed and presumed to be and, subsequently, are believed to betray their makers as well as users.

Author: Magdalena Crăciun

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ISBN: 147421410X

Category: Brand name products

Page: 170

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The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this mirror? This book provides an original and revealing study into engagements with objects that are not what they are claimed and presumed to be and, subsequently, are believed to betray their makers as well as users. Drawing upon an ethnography of fake branded garments in Turkey and Romania, Material Cultu.
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Material Cultures 1740 920

2017-07-05

Authenticity, then, 'poses issues concerning longevity, history, tradition and resistance to change' located in material culture (Atfield, 2000, 77). Authenticity and its concomitant tests of provenance, historical continuity, ...

Author: Alla Myzelev

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351558945

Category: Art

Page: 250

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Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture. Material Cultures, 1740-1920 has four primary theoretical and historiographic lines of inquiry. The first is how concepts of otherness and difference inform, imbricate, and impose themselves on identity and the modes of acquisition as well as the objects themselves. The second concern explores the intricacies of how objects and their subjects negotiate and represent spatial narratives. The third thread attempts to unravel the ideological underpinnings of collections of individuals which inevitably and invariably rub up against the social, the institutional, and the political. Finally, at the heart of Material Cultures, 1740-1920 is an intervention moving beyond the disciplinary ethos of material culture to argue more firmly for the aesthetic, visual, and semiotic potency inseparable from any understanding of material objects integral to the lives of their collecting subjects. The collection argues that objects are semiotic conduits or signs of meanings, pleasures, and desires that are deeply subjective; more often than not, they reveal racial, gendered, and sexual identities. As the volume demonstrates through its various case studies, material and visual cultures are not as separate as our current disciplinary ethos would lead us to believe.
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Material Culture in America

2008

Fakes individual, or it may be the result of piecing together historically authentic materials to create an object that simulates a known and likely desirable original. An object may also be enhanced—repainted, for example—so that its ...

Author: Helen Sheumaker

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781576076477

Category: Social Science

Page: 569

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Presents more than two hundred alphabetic entries that cover the history of American material culture, including such topics as adolescence, mourning, graphic design, Art Deco, and gay consumerism.
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Material Culture

2004

What is being negotiated , as Spooner pithily puts it , is authenticity . That is , as the pace of mobility and the crowding at the top of Western society become more marked , and as technology permits the multiplication of prestige ...

Author: Victor Buchli

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 0415267218

Category: Material culture

Page: 521

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Creating Authenticity

2013-11-27

In short, in ethnographic museums, unprovenanced pieces are generally authenticated on the basis of the knowledge and understanding of museum staff of the (material) culture of a given region or people. As such, I would argue that often ...

Author: Alexander Geurds

Publisher: Sidestone Press

ISBN: 9789088902055

Category: Social Science

Page: 172

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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 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. How do we interact with questions of authenticity and authentication when we curate, study artefacts, collect, repatriate, and make (re)presentations? The contributing authors illustrate the divergent nature in which the authentic is brought into play, deconstructed and operationalized. Authenticity, the book argues, is an expression of a desire that is equally troubled as it is resilient.
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Material Culture and Forced Migration

2022-02-17

Materializing the transient Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Andrea Lauser, Antonie Fuhse, Peter J. Bräunlein ... Cultural authenticity is thus exposed as being less an objective trait inherent in 314 MATERIAL CULTURE AND ...

Author: Friedemann Yi-Neumann

Publisher: UCL Press

ISBN: 9781800081604

Category: Social Science

Page: 367

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Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements – from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols. Centring on four interconnected themes – temporality and materiality, methods of object-based migration research, the affective capacities of objects, and the engagement of things in place-making practices – the volume provides a material culture perspective for migration scholars around the globe, representing disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, contemporary archaeology, curatorial studies, history and human geography. The ethnographic nature of the chapters and the focus on everyday objects and practices will appeal to all those interested in the broader conditions and tangible experiences of migration.
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Debating Authenticity

2012-12-30

The authenticity of material culture has to be approached from a double perspective, namely on the one hand the artwork and artefact as a means for collections, be they private or for museums and the authentic commodity of the mass ...

Author: Thomas Fillitz

Publisher: Berghahn Books

ISBN: 9780857454973

Category: Social Science

Page: 258

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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 contributors emphasise the dichotomy between the academic use of the term and the one deployed in public spaces and political projects. All, however, consider authenticity as something that can only be understood ethnographically, and not as a simple characteristic or category used to distinguish some behaviors, experiences or material things from other less authentic versions.
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Culture and Authenticity

2008

Authenticity, in its many guises, offers seekers a sense of belonging, connection and solidity. This work argues that the pervasive desire for authenticity is a consequence of a modern loss of faith and meaning.

Author: Charles Lindholm

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISBN: STANFORD:36105124059309

Category: History

Page: 176

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Authenticity is taken for granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. We speak of authentic art, music, food, dance, and people. Authenticity, in its many guises, offers seekers a sense of belonging, connection and solidity. This work argues that the pervasive desire for authenticity is a consequence of a modern loss of faith and meaning.
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Authenticity in Culture Self and Society

2016-12-05

This realist perspective1 privileges and reifies an etic discourse of subcultural authenticity, ... Overemphasizing style fetishizes material culture and its consumption as indispensable dimensions of youth subculture.

Author: J. Patrick Williams

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351956659

Category: Social Science

Page: 296

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Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding this concept, offering a sociological analysis of it for the first time in order to provide readers in the social and cultural sciences with a clear conceptualization of authenticity and with a survey of original empirical studies focused on its experience, negotiation, and social relevance at the levels of self, culture and specific social settings.
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