Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance

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Mads Daugbjerg (Aarhus University, Denmark) Rivka Eisner (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Re-Enacting the Past

Heritage, Materiality and Performance

Mads Daugbjerg (Aarhus University, Denmark), Rivka Eisner (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Britta Knudsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

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Routledge
16 June 2017

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Theatre Studies; History: theory & methods; Cultural studies

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 Lê, 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.

Edited by: Mads Daugbjerg (Aarhus University Denmark), Rivka Eisner (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Britta Knudsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138294844
ISBN 10: 1138294845
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 16 June 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.