Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance

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Synopsis
What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture and are of growing importance to heritage studies. As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms: from the annual ‘Viking Moot’ festival in Denmark drawing thousands of participants and spectators, to the (re)staged war photography of An-My Lê, to the Titanic Memorial Cruise commemorating the centennial of the ill-fated voyage, to the symbolic retracing of the Berlin Wall across the city on 9 November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of its toppling.Re-enactments involve the sensuousness of bodily experience and engagement, the exhilarating yet precarious combination of imagination with ‘historical fact’, in-the-moment negotiations between and within temporalities, and the compelling drive to re-make, or re-presence, the past. As such, re-enactments present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity.This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
152 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317376156
Related ISBNs:
9781317376149, 9781317376132, 9781138294844, 9781315673431, 9781138941861
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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N/A
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Mads Daugbjerg
Edited by:
Rivka Eisner
Edited by:
Britta Knudsen

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