Conceptualising the subjective authenticity of intangible cultural heritage

Su, Junjie

doi:10.1080/13527258.2018.1428662

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“…The examination included the implementation of authenticity criteria in the Western AHD by heritage experts and local governments, the perceptions of "authentic" Shaolin heritage and culture by local actors, and the spatial consequences of implementing authenticity criteria in the SSSA. As many Chinese scholars indicate, the concept of authenticity, both as a Western concept and criteria, confuses Chinese people in many aspects [25][26][27]30,42]. This final section analyzes the key findings around the views on authenticity and their influences on heritage practices in the SSSA of different actors.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…From this perspective, what heritage experts regard as "authentic" might be perceived differently from the perspectives of local residents and tourists. Scholars have since developed many new ideas on authenticity and tourism, such as "existential authenticity" [25], "performed authenticity" [26], and "subjective authenticity" [27]. In short, and to use an example appropriate to this paper, the absolute division between an 'authentic heritage site' and a 'pseudo-classic theme park' itself has become blurred since different social groups might have different perspectives on what constitutes authenticity in the first place [28].…”

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The Uses of Reconstructing Heritage in China: Tourism, Heritage Authorization, and Spatial Transformation of the Shaolin Temple

Song

Sigley

2019

Sustainability

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Recently, debates on authenticity in the West and China have attracted attention of critical heritage studies. This paper aims to better understand how Western Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) influences local heritage practice in China. This paper employs observation, semi-structured interviews and textual analysis to examine how authenticity criteria in Western AHD has shaped perceptions on the spatial consequences of what is “authentic” by different agents in regards to the cultural heritage of the Shaolin Temple. It is argued that the implementation of authenticity criteria found in Western AHD influences Shaolin heritage practice both in hegemonic and negotiated ways, in which a Chinese AHD is formed through the creation of a Western AHD with Chinese characteristics. The understandings on authenticity criteria derived from Western AHD by Chinese heritage experts dominates Shaolin heritage practice, whilst the perceptions on “authentic” Shaolin Temple cultural heritage attached closely to their emotions and experiences by local residents are neglected and excluded. The religiously based authenticity claims of the Shaolin monks which competes with those of the heritage experts and local residents are also considered. Furthermore, the managerial structure was changed in 2010 from a government-directed institution to a joint-venture partnership. The impacts of these managerial changes are also considered. The final outcome of these competing heritage claims was that local residents were relocated far from their original community. Without the residential community in situ, and in conjunction with the further commercialization of local culture, the Shaolin Temple heritage site takes on the features of a pseudo-classic theme park.

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The Uses of Reconstructing Heritage in China: Tourism, Heritage Authorization, and Spatial Transformation of the Shaolin Temple

Song

Sigley

2019

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“…Thus, it may have been understood that learning was a form of appropriation in which people integrated the external environment into their own subjectivity with, in turn have led to the interaction with other elements and the latter’s transformation (Su 2018).…”

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Artistic Techniques in Heritage Education: An Exploratory SHEO‐Based Study

Redondo¹,

Valle‐Gómez²,

Fontal³

2020

Int J Art Design Ed

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Having started from theoretical premises, the following study showed the results obtained by research work carried out on the use of artistic methodologies in the educational designs inventoried in the database of the Spanish Heritage Education Observatory (SHEO). This article’s aim was to understand and learn about the use of artistic techniques in the designs of heritage education programmes. To this end, the authors resorted to SHEO’s own methodology for the assessment of the quality of educational programmes. In this study, specific modifications were introduced in the latter methodology as well as in the data collection and analysis tools so as to adapt them to the specific topic of our research. In order to achieve this purpose, a descriptive‐statistical analysis of the variables defined for the sample was made by using the SPSS software. The main results were not particularly promising and point to the low representativeness within the whole database of the educational designs inventoried in the SHEO database that use artistic techniques as well at the playful and use that was made of such techniques in those designs and the absence of solid contents in this regard.

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“…The symbols aim at connecting people to the spiritual world reaching the 'absolute balance' or harmony (Rianingrum, Sachari, & Santosa, 2017). Therefore, the narratives created in the urban space are meaningful for local people as the intangible feature of heritage (Malpas, 2008;Su, 2018).…”

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The Ideological Meanings of Heritage: The Conflicting Symbols in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Siregar

2019

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The heritage of Yogyakarta is always situated in a dynamic urban environment. Heritage conservation has been challenged by a lack of understanding on the ideological process in the creation of meanings. This paper investigates the creation process of urban space that is currently appreciated as heritage. The paper uses the city of Yogyakarta as the case study because its uniqueness as a mix of traditional and colonial cities. The study uses the concept of meaning production to understand the association between the construction of urban space and ideological meanings. This concept corresponds to the creation of urban objects and the recognition of meanings in the society. This study uses data sourced from a literature study. As the result, the process of meaning production has demonstrated social and political forces in the construction of traditional and colonial buildings. Situation in the past demonstrates urban space as a tool of political hegemony of traditional court and colonialist. A different social milieu in the present day changes the conflicting ideologies into history. Therefore, the urban structure expresses political strategies of relevant authorities in proclaiming hegemony and regulating society. This study provides a basis for investigating the influence of ideologies on the meaning of heritage that corresponds to cultural significant.

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Conceptualising the subjective authenticity of intangible cultural heritage

Cited by 65 publications

References 41 publications

The Uses of Reconstructing Heritage in China: Tourism, Heritage Authorization, and Spatial Transformation of the Shaolin Temple

The Uses of Reconstructing Heritage in China: Tourism, Heritage Authorization, and Spatial Transformation of the Shaolin Temple

Artistic Techniques in Heritage Education: An Exploratory SHEO‐Based Study

The Ideological Meanings of Heritage: The Conflicting Symbols in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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