Description:
- All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America
- Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history.
- Scholars with affiliations at universities in Austria, Demark, France, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom
- Emphasizes how people engage objects and others as authentic and inauthentic
Brief description:
A. Jamie Saris is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland-Maynooth and Co-Chair of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium. He has been working more than fifteen years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America and Africa.
Review Quotes:
"Debating Authenticity is an authentic representation of the state of play in contemporary anthropology." - American Anthropologist
"Debating Authenticity presents the reader with a rich collection of ethnographic case studies, unpacking the complexity of the concept in various social settings across the globe." - The Australian Journal of Anthropology