Creating Authenticity: Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums Geurds Alexander
Creating Authenticity: Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums Geurds Alexander 'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction…
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Creating Authenticity: Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums Geurds Alexander
'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting.
Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in the (even) deeper past.Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. It came to be recognized that both far-away
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