Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses
Various conclusions can be drawn from reading this book. However, the most general would probably be that, in relation to cultural heritage, in Europe we are experiencing a period characterised by festivals. This period involves citizens, public managers and researchers. As Valdimar Tr. Hafstein stated, in the interesting ‘Afterwords’ that conclude the book, cultural heritage and particularly intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are being ‘festivalised’. We could interpret this as a corollary of what Guy Debord has already described in La société du spectacle. However, the studies included in this volume show us that the time for postmodernist criticism – which was probably necessary but maybe abused – has passed, and the distance between observers and the observed, between analysts and actors has narrowed and blurred in the twenty-first century...
History
Refereed
- No
Volume
30Issue number
1Page range
167-169Number of pages
3Publication title
ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN CULTURESISSN
1755-2923Publisher
BERGHAHN JOURNALSFile version
- Published version
Language
- eng