Reenactment Case Studies : Global Perspectives on Experiential History

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Reenactment Case StudiesGlobal Perspectives on Experiential History\nAuthor(s): Vanessa Agnew, Juliane Tomann, Sabine Stach\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032324555, 978-1032324555\nSynopsis\nReenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.\n\nReenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation,.