Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781138941861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 152 str.

Mads Daugbjerg;Rivka Syd Eisner;Britta Timm Knudsen

Opis

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 Le, 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." "

Spis treści

1. Re-enacting the past: vivifying heritage ‘again’  2. Re-enacting process: temporality, historicity and the Women’s Liberation Music Archive  3. From a colonial reinvention to postcolonial heritage and a global commodity: performing and re-enacting Angkor Wat and the Royal Khmer Ballet  4. Patchworking the past: materiality, touch and the assembling of ‘experience’ in American Civil War re-enactment  5. Between narratives and lists: performing digital intangible heritage through global media  6. Performing heritage (studies) at the Lord Mayor’s show  7. The time travellers’ tools of the trade: some trends at Lejre  8. Drought and Rain: re-creations in Vietnamese, cross-border heritage

O autorze

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.