Culture and AuthenticityWiley, 2008 - 176 pages 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.
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... objects have a charismatic aura , art objects emitting that aura are authentic ) , and theological in origin , so that counterfeiting becomes a kind of sacrilege . This notion of authenticity , Walter Benjamin says , is a diluted ...
... objects have a charismatic aura , art objects emitting that aura are authentic ) , and theological in origin , so that counterfeiting becomes a kind of sacrilege . This notion of authenticity , Walter Benjamin says , is a diluted ...
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... objects , to be explained , catalogued , and hung in display cases . They were expressions of pure id . Inspired by his vision , Picasso's created his seminal modernist painting Le Demoiselles d'Avignon as new sort of art . It was not ...
... objects , to be explained , catalogued , and hung in display cases . They were expressions of pure id . Inspired by his vision , Picasso's created his seminal modernist painting Le Demoiselles d'Avignon as new sort of art . It was not ...
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... objects , it was assumed , could no longer be produced because the authors no longer lived in their pristine worlds ; they had been corrupted by colonialism , tainted by capitalism . All these fallen people could produce were mere ...
... objects , it was assumed , could no longer be produced because the authors no longer lived in their pristine worlds ; they had been corrupted by colonialism , tainted by capitalism . All these fallen people could produce were mere ...
Contents
Authenticity and Music | 25 |
Seeking Authenticity in Travel and Adventure | 39 |
The Commodification of Authenticity | 52 |
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