Sense and Essence by Birgit Meyer
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation.-
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
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Rest in Plastic
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Objects and Imagination
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Death, Materiality and Mediation
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The Great Reimagining
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Creativity in Transition
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From Storeroom to Stage
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The Cracked Art World
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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships
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Having and Belonging
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Materializing Migrants’ Emotions
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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
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Crafting Chinese Memories
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Not the Troubles
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Haunting Ruins
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Reconstructing Homes
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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
“This is an extensive and influential collection that whilst reviewing I took with me to the field, twice! It is a book to ponder and to return toIt is cohesively edited…, volume nine in Berghahn’s Material Mediations series and a fantastic and stimulating addition…this powerful and detailed volume on the affective nature of heritage needs to be read and re-read, digested and extensively travelled with.” • Journal of Heritage Tourism
“Considering that we all know the world we live in is a ‘construct’, how are we convinced to accept it as real and act accordingly? And how is heritage, which is always a social construct, made real through aesthetics of persuasion and politics of authenticity? By addressing these questions in richly varied ethnographic case studies, this volume not only makes a significant contribution to an issue that is of wider interest to the social sciences, it also makes heritage studies as a field highly relevant to the social sciences.” • Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia
Birgit Meyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She is co-editor of Material Religion. Her recent publications include Aesthetic Formations: Religion, Media and the Senses (ed., Palgrave 2009), Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality (ed. with Dick Houtman, Fordham 2012), Sensational Movies: Video Vision and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), and Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (ed. with Maruška Svašek, Berghahn, 2016).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785339394 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785339397 |
| Title | Sense and Essence |
| Author | Birgit Meyer |
| Series | Material Mediations: People And Things In A World Of Movement |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2018-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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