Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity, Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time.
Examines the idea of authenticity and its role in modern culture
Explores society?s preoccupation with authenticity and the search for ?real? experiences
Looks at how the concept of authenticity intersects with questions about religion, ethnicity, and race
Investigates authenticity in the context of fields such as dance, cuisine, travel, and the modern marketplace
Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity, Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical material, and comparative philosophy, to explore how notions of authenticity develop, what forms it takes, and how it changes over time.
Examines the idea of authenticity and its role in modern culture
Explores society?s preoccupation with authenticity and the search for ?real? experiences
Looks at how the concept of authenticity intersects with questions about religion, ethnicity, and race
Investigates authenticity in the context of fields such as dance, cuisine, travel, and the modern marketplace
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter.?Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of 'authentic' experiences, global brands...
This book critically analyzes various means by which the authentic is searched for, staged, admired, dismissed, replicated or simply taken for granted. What is at work in such discursive practices is...
The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What...
The 'personal' was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a 'professional manner' entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations can be found...
This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity as they play out in various contexts of foreign language teaching and learning worldwide. The chapters cover a wide range of...
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