Discourses of Heritagization in East-Central Europe

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ID7544281
AutoresÁgnes Eitler (0000-0001-9941-266X, Institute of Ethnology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary), Bence Ament-Kovács (0000-0002-0782-530X, Institute of Ethnology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary)
Año2024
Volumen68
Número2
Páginas273-285
Fecha de publicación2024-12-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Ethnographica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1216-9803 • E-ISSN: 1588-2586
EditorialAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/022.2024.00020
OpenAlexW4405557152
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

The making of heritage is a complex contemporary process that permeates society from the normative contexts of the global as well as national level to local communities. It enters extremely diverse sites, since it is part of both rural and urban life-worlds, and it is present in the institutional space of museums as well. Cultural elements that have been detached from their former contexts and made into heritage are no less diverse. The symbolic valorization of different historical periods depends on the regional and local contexts of heritage-making. The prestige (acceptance or rejection) and meanings of the legacy of certain periods, relationship to tradition, as well as the ways in which ‘authenticity’ is interpreted are products of a constant re-defining process steered by various social actors, such as members of local communities, cultural brokers, and experts. These positions often represent intertwining roles (researcher, expert, mediator, active or passive local actors) that are difficult to distinguish from one another in the various situations in which heritage-making can be researched empirically

Ancient history · East-Central Europe · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Law