Scholars from a wide variety of knowledge fields have participated in enriching and engaging discussions, as to how both domains can be addressed. It concentrates on two major domains: first it attempts to reframe our understanding of vernacularity by addressing the subject in the context of globalisation, cross-disciplinarity, and development, and second, it discusses the phenomenon of how vernacularity has been treated, used, employed, manipulated, practiced, maintained, learned, reconstructed, preserved and conserved, at the level of individual and community experience. The aim of this book is to reflect on ''vernacularity'' and culture. They also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation, transformation, and, in some cases, refusal. With more than 180 illustrations and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin, and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity.
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This volume presents colonial and postcolonial discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based on representative case studies presented by art historians, architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany, Nepal, India, China, and Japan. Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local concerns. It was adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia.
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Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage.
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The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.