Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, 9)

Synopsis

Heritage Dynamics : Politics Of Authentication, Aesthetics Of Persuasion And The Cultural Production Of The Real / Mattijs Van De Port And Birgit Meyer -- Aesthetics As Form And Force : Notes On The Shaping Of Pataxo Indian Bodies / Andre Werneck De Andrade Bakker -- Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies : The Baiana And The Acaraje As Boundary-objects In Contemporary Brazil / Bruno Reinhardt -- Swinging Between The Material And The Immaterial : Brazilian Cultural Politics And The Authentication Of Afro-brazilian Heritage / Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi -- News-history And The Formation Of The Sunday Times Heritage Project / Duane Jethro -- Scaffolding Heritage : Transient Architectures And Temporalizing Formations In Luanda / Ruy Llera Blanes -- Corpo-reality Tv : Media, Body, And The Authentication Of 'african Heritage' / Marleen De Witte -- Heated Discussions Are Necessary : The Creative Engagement With Sankofa In Modern Ghanaian Arts / Rhoda Woets -- Iconic Objects : Making Diasporic Heritage, Blackness, And Whiteness In The Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol -- Ascertaining The Future Memory Of Our Time : Dutch Institutions Collecting Relics Of National Tragedy / Irene Stengs -- Heritage Under Construction : Boundary Objects, Scaffolding, And Anticipation / David Chidester -- Can Anything Become Heritage? / David Berliner -- Heritage As Process / Ciraj Rassool. Edited By Birgit Meyer And Mattijs Van De Port. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.