Authenticity is a notion much debated, among discussants as diverse as cultural theorists
and art dealers, music critics and tour operators. The desire to find and somehow capture or …

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The development and ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) has seen a significant increase in international debate …

In the 1990s, a critical cultural historian could exclaim, with considerable
frustration,'Suddenly, cultural heritage is everywhere'(Lowenthal 1996: ix). Since then …

Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North
America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were …

Jean Jackson (1989) asks, in the title of an essay," Is There a Way to Talk about Making
Culture without Making Enemies?" I think that it would be fair to respond that, generally …

This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in
the United States: T-shirts bearing words and phrases thought to be unique to Pittsburgh …

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, under the sway of Romantic Nationalism, folklore
emerged. Both the public understanding of folklore and the ways it is studied by folklorists …

This book explores the history of Pittsburghese, the language of the Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania area as it is imagined and used by Pittsburghers. Pittburghese is linked to …

Discussions of tourism and folklore usually stress the economic motivations that lead to the
creation of folkloristic displays and until recently decried the impact of tourism on" authentic" …