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Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance book cover

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Re-Enacting the Past Heritage, Materiality and Performance

Edited By Mads Daugbjerg, Rivka Eisner, Britta Timm Knudsen Copyright 2016
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Re-enacting the past: vivifying heritage ‘again’ Mads Daugbjerg, Rivka Syd Eisner and Britta Timm Knudsen

2. Re-enacting process: temporality, historicity and the Women’s Liberation Music Archive Deborah Withers

3. From a colonial reinvention to postcolonial heritage and a global commodity: performing and re-enacting Angkor Wat and the Royal Khmer Ballet Michael S. Falser

4. Patchworking the past: materiality, touch and the assembling of ‘experience’ in American Civil War re-enactment Mads Daugbjerg

5. Between narratives and lists: performing digital intangible heritage through global media Sheenagh Pietrobruno

6. Performing heritage (studies) at the Lord Mayor’s show Duncan Grewcock

7. The time travellers’ tools of the trade: some trends at Lejre Cornelius Holtorf

8. Drought and Rain: re-creations in Vietnamese, cross-border heritage Rivka Syd Eisner

Biography

Mads Daugbjerg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Rivka Syd Eisner is a postdoctoral research fellow with the UFSP Asien und Europa at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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