Authentic recreation: living history and leisure
This essay considers a postmodern interpretation of the concept of authenticity and a criticism of that interpretation advanced from an ethnographic perspective. The author shows how these theoretical issues arise at American Civil War re-enactments by describing the ways by which the re-enactment c...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Leicester
2007-07-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/99 |