Sense and essence heritage and the cultural production of the real

• Main Authors: Meyer, Birgit, Port, Mattijs van de
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Berghahn Books 2018; Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
• Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural & Social; Cultural Policy; Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Group identity; Material culture; Museum Studies; Originality (Aesthetics); Political Science; Public Policy; Public Policy & Administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE

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 d...