Contents
Introduction
Defining Authenticity
Why Authenticity Emerged
The Inventor of Authenticity
Part Ⅰ: Personal Authenticity
1 Authenticity and Art
Totems, Relics, and the Origins of Art
The Cult of the Artist and Romance of the Primitive
Parody, Appropriation, and Desacralization
2 Authenticity and Music
History Versus Heart in Classical Music
Real Music about Real Life for Real People
Marketing Authentic Performance
3 Seeking Authenticity Travel and Adventure
Real Life is Elsewhere
Staging Authenticity
The Whole Adrenaline Thing
4 Commodification of Authenticity
Get the Genuine
The Dialectic of Authenticity and Imitation
Who Buys What in the Marketplace of the Soul?
5 Authenticity and the Self
Marketing Feeling
Ecstatic Religion and Improvised Style
Saving the World for Pleasure
Part Ⅱ: Collective Authenticity
6 Authentic Cuisine and National Identity
Inventing Real Belizean Food
If Real Italians Eat Pasta, Do Real Indians Eat Curry?
Terroir, Power, and French Cuisine
7 Authentic Dance and National Identity
Collective Identity and Speech That Cannot Lie
Without Rumba There Is No Cuba
Tango: The Dance of the Scream
8 Modes of Authenticity in the Nation-State
Primordial Nationalism
Who Belongs?
Missionary Politics
9 Israel and Authentic Jewish Identity
Defining Jews, Founding Israel
Jews on Horseback
The Poly-Ethnic Theme Park
10 Authenticity On the Margins
Genes Make the Tribe
First Nations: Identity and Identification
The Empty Center and the Tears That Bind
Conclusion
An Anthropology of Authenticity
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