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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 emphasize 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Debating Authenticity
• Author: Thomas Fillitz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9780857454966
• ISBN: 085745496X
• ID: 01291750
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 186 × 234 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2012

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