Title Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museums / alexander Geurds ; Laura Van Broekhoven.

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Physical Medium	polychrome
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Series	Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ; 42
	Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ; 42.
Summary	'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. 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. 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 t.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject	Ethnological museums and collections.
	Ethnological museums and collections.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Geurds, Alexander, 1974-
	Van Broekhoven, Laura.
Other Form:	Print version: Creating authenticity. Authentication processes in ethnographic museums 9789088902055 (OCoLC)868824064
ISBN	9789088902062 (electronic book)
	9088902062 (electronic book)
	1306408474 (e-book)
	9781306408479 (e-book)
	9789088902055
	9088902054