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Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.



Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.

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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 to. It is cohesively edited, volume nine in Berghahns Material Mediations series and a fantastic and stimulating additionthis 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

List of Illustrations
vii
Preface xi
Introduction: Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real 1(40)
Mattijs van de Port
Birgit Meyer
1 Aesthetics as Form and Force: Notes on the Shaping of Pataxo Indian Bodies
41(34)
Andre Werneck de Andrade Bakker
2 Intangible Heritage, Tangible Controversies: The Baiana and the Acaraje as Boundary Objects in Contemporary Brazil
75(34)
Bruno Reinhardt
3 Swinging between the Material and the Immaterial: Brazilian Cultural Politics and the Authentication of Afro-Brazilian Heritage
109(27)
Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi
4 `Reporting the Past': News History and the Formation of the Sunday Times Heritage Project
136(22)
Duane Jethro
5 Scaffolding Heritage: Transient Architectures and Temporalizing Formations in Luanda
158(24)
Ruy Llera Blanes
6 Corpo-Reality TV: Media, Body and the Authentication of African Heritage'
182(30)
Marleen de Witte
7 `Heated Discussions Are Necessary': The Creative Engagement with Sankofa in Modern Ghanaian Art
212(24)
Rhoda Woets
8 Iconic Objects: Making Diasporic Heritage, Blackness and Whiteness in the Netherlands
236(30)
Markus Balkenhol
9 Ascertaining the Future Memory of Our Time: Dutch Institutions Collecting Relics of National Tragedy
266(25)
Irene Stengs
Concluding Comments
10 Heritage under Construction: Boundary Objects, Scaffolding and Anticipation
291(8)
David Chidester
11 Can Anything Become Heritage?
299(7)
David Berliner
12 Heritage as Process
306(7)
Ciraj Rassool
Index 313
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 Maruka Svaek, Berghahn, 2016).