Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu by Deblock, Hugo

Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781836950790)

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Format: Paperback
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Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu by Deblock, Hugo

Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

$34.95
Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu by Deblock, Hugo

Artifak: Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself.

Author: Hugo Deblock
ISBN-10: 1836950799
ISBN-13: 9781836950790
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2025
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
By Hugo Deblock
By Hugo Deblock
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Hugo DeBlock is a Guest Professor at Ghent University and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Vanuatu, and his most recent research focuses on visual anthropology, film, and representation in Vanuatu, Zanzibar, and Tanzania.

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