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Author DeBlock, Hugo, author.

Title Artifak : cultural revival, tourism, and the recrafting of history in Vanuatu / Hugo DeBlock
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018

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Contents Introduction. Art and commodity in Vanuatu -- Art, anthropology, and tourism -- Arts of Vanuatu -- Making authenticity -- Selling authenticity -- Commodities and authenticity -- Museums -- Conclusion. Artifak: the value of art in Vanuatu
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tourism and art -- Vanuatu
Art and society -- Vanuatu
Heritage tourism -- Vanuatu
Authenticity (Philosophy)
ART / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Art and society
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Heritage tourism
Tourism and art
Vanuatu
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018051804
ISBN 1789200431
9781789200430