Cultural Heritage in Europe
Ethnologists' Uses of the Authentic

Author: Kaschuba, Wolfgang

Source: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Volume 17, Number 2, Autumn 2008 , pp. 34-46(13)

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Abstract:

This article deals with the often problematic connection between European and ethnological world images. After a short retrospective on the ethnological heritage, it elaborates current social and political problems and determines the ethnological position in these discourses. Finally, it recommends the imagination of an 'ethnology of the present', which increasingly focuses its lens on the European margins, across boundaries, and on movements: ethnology as a 'social ethnography' of the culturally vagrant, ambivalent and fluid.

Keywords: AUTHENTICITY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; ETHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; EUROPEANNESS; POLITICS OF IDENTITY

DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2008.170203

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Cultural Heritage in Europe Ethnologists' Uses of the Authentic

Cultural Heritage in Europe
Ethnologists' Uses of the Authentic