Culture and Authenticity
Title | Culture and Authenticity PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lindholm |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2007-12-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1405124431 |
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
Culture and Authenticity
Title | Culture and Authenticity PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lindholm |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Authenticity is taken for granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. We speak of authentic art, music, food, dance, and people. Authenticity, in its many guises, offers seekers a sense of belonging, connection and solidity. This work argues that the pervasive desire for authenticity is a consequence of a modern loss of faith and meaning.
Culture and Authenticity
Title | Culture and Authenticity PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lindholm |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2007-12-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1405124431 |
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
Cultures of Authenticity
Title | Cultures of Authenticity PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Heřmanová |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2022-11-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1801179387 |
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This collection explores the complex and controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases.
Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society
Title | Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | J. Patrick Williams |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351956655 |
Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society addresses the problems surrounding this concept, offering a sociological analysis of it for the first time in order to provide readers in the social and cultural sciences with a clear conceptualization of authenticity and with a survey of original empirical studies focused on its experience, negotiation, and social relevance at the levels of self, culture and specific social settings.
Authentic TM
Title | Authentic TM PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Banet-Weiser |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-10-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0814787134 |
While the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool of marketing, a method of attaching social meaning to a commodity as a way to make it more personally resonant with consumers, Banet-Weiser argues that in the contemporary era, brands are about culture as much as they are about economics.
Who Owns Culture?
Title | Who Owns Culture? PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Scafidi |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780813536064 |
It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world's closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were originally generated, or the culture that has absorbed them? While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek cultural products at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law. But is this legal vacuum an injustice, the lifeblood of American culture, a historical oversight, a result of administrative incapacity, or all of the above? Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man's-land between law and culture, pausing to ask: What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore? What does it mean for a creation to belong to a community, especially a diffuse or fractured one? And is our national culture the product of Yankee ingenuity or cultural kleptomania? Providing new insights to communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture, this innovative and accessible guide greatly enriches future legal understanding of cultural production.