Journal articles: 'Cultural Authenticity'

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U, Ibekwe Ephraim. "Africa and Cultural Authenticity." Asian Themes in Social Sciences Research 1, no. 2 (2018): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33094/journal.139.2018.12.50.59.

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YOUNG, GREGORY. "AUTHENTICITY IN CULTURAL CONSERVATION." Australian Planner 29, no. 1 (March 1991): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.1991.9657492.

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Hendrix, Burke. "Authenticity and Cultural Rights." Journal of Moral Philosophy 5, no. 2 (2008): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552408x328975.

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AbstractShould states extend customized political protections to 'minority nations' or 'minority cultures'? Part of the answer depends on whether the identities at stake are merely political artifacts created or exploited by 'ethnic entrepreneurs', or whether they are 'authentic' expression of an ongoing collective life. This essay argues that the real character of groups is persistently difficult to recognize, and that 'authenticity' is a problematic notion even in the abstract. Given these uncertainties, the essay argues that states should generally treat only the claims of small and vulnerable groups as moral issues, while treating the claims of large groups primarily as political matters. The essay closes with a discussion of the legal criteria for recognizing Indian tribes in the United States, arguing that the standards used are generally plausible, if problematic in one key detail.

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Al-Kharrat, Edwar. "Cultural Authenticity and National Identity." Diogenes 52, no. 2 (May 2005): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/039219210505200204.

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Horváth Futó, Hargita, and Éva Hózsa. "Divergent Cultural Environment – Translator Authenticity." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0014.

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Abstract People and communities living geographically far from each other and originating from culturally different environments establish contact with each other by means of the sudden spread of information and communication technologies. Knowledge of world languages no longer suffices for engaging in successful social interaction, it has to be accompanied by intercultural competence. Intercultural communication occurs when interlocutors belonging to different cultures understand each other. The translator’s work can be also understood as intercultural communication since in addition to translating linguistic material, the translator also transcodes the culture of the source language into the target language. (Inter)cultural competence is therefore one of the basic requirements for a translator. There is an ever-increasing emphasis on mediation between different cultures in translation, and according to new interpretations of translation this mediation represents the keystone of translation. The present study examines how elements of Hungarian culture are rendered in Serbian and German by analysing translations of Hungarian authors’ works into these two languages.

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Jian, Yufan, Zhimin Zhou, and Nan Zhou. "Brand cultural symbolism, brand authenticity, and consumer well-being: the moderating role of cultural involvement." Journal of Product & Brand Management 28, no. 4 (July 15, 2019): 529–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-08-2018-1981.

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Purpose This paper aims to improve knowledge regarding the complicated relationship among brand cultural symbolism, consumer cultural involvement, brand authenticity and consumer well-being. Although some literature has mentioned the relationship between the above concepts, these relationships have not been confirmed by empirical studies. Design/methodology/approach Based on the self-determination theory and the authenticity theory, a causal model of brand cultural symbolism, consumers’ enduring cultural involvement, brand authenticity and consumer well-being is developed. The structural equation model and multiple regressions are used to test the hypothesis. The primary data are based on an online survey conducted in China (N = 533). A total of six brands from the USA, France and China were selected as study samples. Findings The data reveal that brand cultural symbolism has a positive relationship with brand authenticity and consumer well-being; brand authenticity partially mediates the relationship between brand cultural symbolism and consumer well-being; and find a weakening effect of consumers’ enduring cultural involvement on the relationship between brand cultural symbolism and brand authenticity. Research limitations/implications The weakening effect of consumers’ enduring cultural involvement on the relationship between brand cultural symbols and brand authenticity should be further verified through experiments and the model should be tested in different cultural backgrounds from a cross-cultural perspective. Practical implications The present study offers novel insights for brand managers by highlighting brand authenticity as the fundamental principle that explains the effect of cultural symbolism of brands, consumers’ enduring cultural involvement, as well as eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. Originality/value The findings suggest that cultural significance of a brand is closely related to brand authenticity and consumer well-being; however, on consumers with a highly enduring cultural involvement, the effect of brand culture symbolism and brand authenticity is weakened. This is an interesting finding because in this case, consumers may measure brand authenticity more based on the brand actual behavior (e.g. brand non-commercial tendency and brand social responsibility) rather than the symbolic image.

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Lawless, Julie Williams, and Kapila D. Silva. "Towards an Integrative Understanding of ‘Authenticity’ of Cultural Heritage: An Analysis of World Heritage Site Designations in the Asian Context." Journal of Heritage Management 1, no. 2 (December 2016): 148–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455929616684450.

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In the World Heritage Sites (WHS) designation, it is required to define the conditions that ‘authenticate’ the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of heritage sites. Initially, the notion of authenticity had been understood as an objective and measurable attribute inherent in the material fabric of sites. This perspective overlooked the fact that authenticity of a place is also culturally constructed, contextually variable and observer dependent. In 1994, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) introduced a set of attributes that facilitate a holistic understanding of authenticity of heritage sites which considers both tangible and intangible aspects of heritage together. To find out the extent to which this holistic understanding of authenticity is currently applied in the WHS designations, we analyzed nomination dossiers of 31 sites from the Asian context that were designated as World Heritage between 2005 and 2014. The findings point towards the continuing need to apply systematic, holistic and integrative perspectives of authenticity standards to heritage sites.

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Green, Michael J. "Adaptation versus authenticity." International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 17, no. 2 (May 17, 2017): 257–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470595817706986.

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Previous research on leader effectiveness in intercultural encounters has focused on the ‘cultural congruence proposition’ which indicates that leaders from one culture encountering followers from a different culture should modify their behaviour away from their own values towards the collective values of the followers in order to enhance their effectiveness. This proposition appears to contradict the basic tenets of authentic leadership theory which indicate that effective leaders align their behaviour strictly with their own values. This article proposes a theoretical model which draws upon each perspective and integrates them to reconcile this apparent conflict. The model suggests that effective cross-cultural leaders use both self-regulation and their cultural intelligence to engender optimum ratings from their followers.

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Underwood, Grant. "Mormonism, the Maori and Cultural Authenticity." Journal of Pacific History 35, no. 2 (September 2000): 133–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/002233400445751.

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Duben, Alan. "İstanbul: Music, cultural authenticity, and civility." New Perspectives on Turkey 45 (2011): 237–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600001382.

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Farrelly, Francis, Florian Kock, and Alexander Josiassen. "Cultural heritage authenticity: A producer view." Annals of Tourism Research 79 (November 2019): 102770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102770.

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Lin, Lin. "Cultural dimensions of authenticity in teaching." New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 2006, no. 111 (2006): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ace.228.

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Liu, Hongbo, Hengyun Li, Robin B. DiPietro, and Jamie Alexander Levitt. "The role of authenticity in mainstream ethnic restaurants." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 30, no. 2 (February 12, 2018): 1035–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-08-2016-0410.

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of perceived authenticity at an independent, full-service mainstream ethnic restaurant and the moderating effects of diners’ cultural familiarity and cultural motivation on the influence of perceived authenticity on perceived value and behavioral intention. Design/methodology/approach A total of 417 self-administered questionnaires were collected from customers of an independent, full-service Italian restaurant in southeastern USA. The data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling. Findings Restaurant authenticity has a positive influence on perceived value. Respondents who are more familiar with and interested in Italian culture and food tend to attach more value to the restaurant authenticity. Respondents tend to use authenticity to convey quality judgment of the restaurant. Research limitations/implications First, this study advances previous literature on dining authenticity by incorporating cultural familiarity and cultural motivation. Second, this study extends the theoretical framework of perceived quality of ethnic restaurants by connecting authenticity perceptions and quality assessment. Practical implications Results suggest that the managers at independent, full-service mainstream ethnic restaurants should focus on the restaurants’ environment and atmospheric authenticity, especially for customers who possess cultural familiarity and cultural motivation, while also ensuring the quality of food and service. Originality/value This study makes an initial attempt at studying the role of authenticity in a mainstream ethnic restaurant context and adds to the knowledge of restaurant authenticity from the perspectives of cultural familiarity, cultural motivation and perceived quality.

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Södergren, Jonatan. "From aura to jargon: the social life of authentication." Arts and the Market 9, no. 2 (December 9, 2019): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aam-05-2019-0020.

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Purpose Authenticity has emerged as a prevailing purchase criterion that seems to include both real and stylised versions of the truth. The purpose of this paper is to address the negotiation of authenticity by examining the means by which costume designers draw on cues such as historical correctness and imagination to authenticate re-enactments of historical epochs in cinematic artwork. Design/methodology/approach To understand and analyse how different epochs were re-enacted required interviewing costume designers who have brought reimagined epochs into being. The questions were aimed towards acknowledging the socio-cultural circulation of images that practitioners draw from in order to project authenticity. This study was conducted during a seven-week internship at a costume store called Independent Costume in Stockholm as part of a doctoral course in cultural production. Findings Authenticity could be found in citations that neither had nor resembled something with an indexical link to the original referent as long as the audience could make a connection to the historical epoch sought to re-enact. As such, it would seem that imagination and historical correctness interplay in impressions of authenticity. Findings suggest that performances of authentication are influenced by socially instituted discursive practices (i.e. jargons) and collective imagination. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on social and performative aspects of authentication as well as its implications for brands in the arts and culture sector.

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Xu, Xueyan (Even), Truc H. Le, Anna Kwek, and Ying Wang. "Exploring cultural tourist towns: Does authenticity matter?" Tourism Management Perspectives 41 (January 2022): 100935. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100935.

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Miller, M. E. "Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity." Journal of American History 99, no. 2 (August 20, 2012): 685–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jas325.

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Linnekin, Jocelyn. "Cultural Invention and the Dilemma of Authenticity." American Anthropologist 93, no. 2 (June 1991): 446–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1991.93.2.02a00120.

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Riabtseva, N. K. "Cross-Cultural Communication: Its Asymmetry and Authenticity." Nauchnyy Dialog, no. 4 (April 30, 2020): 130–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-4-130-150.

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The paper analyses a cross-cultural asymmetry in scientific papers and their titles in Russian and in English, exposes most characteristic distinctions between authentic scientific paper titles in both languages and shows explicit incongruency between authentic paper titles in English and those literally translated from Russian, which often demonstrate cross-linguistic interference between Russian and English academic style. Special attention is payed to its reasons and the ways to overcoming it, as well as to discrepancies in Russian vs. English academic style predetermined by their different grammatical organization and culture-specific cognitive and communicative dominants in the interaction between the author and the reader. The extensive corpus-based empirical data for the carried out contrastive investigation covers authentic scientific paper titles in Russian, their published translations into English, and authentic scientific paper titles from leading international linguistic journals, published in English in 2018-2020 and indexed in Scopus. The overall corpus volume is 7800 titles.

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NOSTRAND, HOWARD LEE. "Authentic Texts and Cultural Authenticity: An Editorial." Modern Language Journal 73, no. 1 (March 1989): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.1989.tb05310.x.

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Johnson, James. "Liberalism and the Politics of Cultural Authenticity." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 1, no. 2 (June 2002): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470594x02001002003.

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Tian, Di, Qiongyao Wang, Rob Law, and Mu Zhang. "Influence of Cultural Identity on Tourists’ Authenticity Perception, Tourist Satisfaction, and Traveler Loyalty." Sustainability 12, no. 16 (August 6, 2020): 6344. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12166344.

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Intangible cultural heritage is a natural fit for tourism development due to its extensive cultural and artistic value. Authenticity is important in the development of intangible cultural heritage tourism. This case study considered Celadon Town, a classic scenic spot of intangible cultural heritage in Zhejiang Province, China, to design questionnaires and a research model involving cultural identity, authenticity perception, tourist satisfaction, and traveler loyalty. This model was used to explore the indigenous presentation of authenticity, that is, the “Traditional Firing Technique of Longquan Celadon,” and its impact on tourist satisfaction and loyalty. On the basis of the research model and hypotheses, relevant data were collected through a questionnaire survey, tested, and analyzed using a structural equation model (SEM). Findings indicate that authenticity of intangible cultural heritage has a significant positive effect on destination satisfaction and loyalty, which supplements related research on the authenticity of intangible cultural heritage destinations. This study advocates that building a characteristic town is a unique development mode of intangible cultural heritage tourism. The model integrates the cultural and tourism attributes of intangible cultural heritage. Based on this development model, the study offers related suggestions for the construction of authenticity and the realization of long-term development of tourism destinations.

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Andimarjoko, Prihartomo. "Sustainable Perceived Authenticity in Cultural Tourism: Modeling Alsace and Bali." Academic Research Community publication 2, no. 2 (May 27, 2018): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i2.246.

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Cultural tourism roughly contributes to 40% of the international tourism arrivals. However, marketing for it is a dilemma between maximizing the economic return and nurturing the culture’s social functions because, in cultural tourism, a culture is a “product” to be “consumed”. Marketers need to attract the “correct” segments of cultural tourism, which have cultural motives as opposed to those of mass tourism. Research shows that attracting such segments can be done through a differentiation based on authenticity. However, in cultural tourism, authenticity is a relative and negotiable term. Perceived authenticity is more applicable than the traditional, objective authenticity. Previous research has been done to understand how authenticity is perceived by tourists but how it changes over a time remains elusive to researchers. This research focuses on the dynamics of perceived authenticity; how it changes over a time. A temporary, hypothetical model is proposed that is subject to a further seeking of variables and their relationships. The research is conducted in two stages: qualitative for building the model and quantitative for confirming it. Two cases will be built i.e. Alsace in France and Bali in Indonesia. The two regions will represent two different points on a spectrum. This research is a work in progress.

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Februandari, Asmarani. "Authenticity in cultural built heritage: learning from Chinese Indonesians’ houses." International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 38, no. 2 (May 29, 2019): 262–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijbpa-02-2019-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore authenticity conception of cultural built heritage. As a core of heritage management, authenticity is often seen as a validation of certain identity. In the cultural built heritage context, authenticity is vital for the community, particularly the ethnic minority community, because it can be viewed as a tool to tackle discrimination and misrecognition issues. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted in two Indonesian Chinatowns, namely, Lasem and Semarang Chinatowns. An ethnography method was employed to address the research aim. Four techniques to carry out data collection were used in this research; they were life story interview, participant observation, documentary research and physical observation through house tour. Two theories were used to analyse the data, and they were Technologies of the Self from Foucault and Habitus from Bourdieu. Findings Result shows that authenticity conception in cultural built heritage is not fixed because it lies on the immaterial aspect (the community’s cultural values) that is continuously reinvented. This research also reveals that the immaterial aspect of cultural built heritage, the community’s cultural values, becomes the core of the conception of authenticity. These cultural values become the foundation for the community to create their cultural built environment. Social implications This research brings an important perspective on authenticity to be applied in heritage management. Interestingly, by adopting this perspective, heritage management could become a tool to create an inclusive society. Originality/value This research offers a unique perspective on heritage authenticity, which was constructed through sociological and materiality approach.

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Kreuzbauer, Robert, and Joshua Keller. "The Authenticity of Cultural Products: A Psychological Perspective." Current Directions in Psychological Science 26, no. 5 (October 2017): 417–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721417702104.

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Authenticity is a central concern in the evaluation of cultural products. But why do people judge some cultural products as more authentic than others? We provide a psychological explanation centered on the judgment of authenticity as a “truth-seeking” process. Observers evaluate whether the perceivable features of the cultural product truthfully capture cultural knowledge as well as the inferred agency control and intentionality of the producer as a conveyer of cultural knowledge. We argue that while no cultural product is inherently authentic, individuals rely on the same psychological processes when judging cultural products’ authenticity. We discuss how our approach applies to any cultural product, including art, architecture, cuisine, tourism, and sports.

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Chang, Tsen Yao, and Che Ting Wen. "Discover the Root: Construction of Authenticity in Culture-Driven Products." Applied Mechanics and Materials 311 (February 2013): 354–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.311.354.

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An ‘industrial economy’ is based on cost, whereas a ‘service economy’ focuses on quality. The coming era of an ‘experience economy’ would allow customers to demand for more than the basic features of a product. One example of such special product feature is authenticity. For the past years, the Taiwanese government has actively promoted the policy of a creative and cultural industry. This directive has led to the production of a tremendous amount of culture-driven products. The eager demand for designs of culture-driven products poses a challenge to their quality, which leads to a discussion of their authenticity. This research generalized the importance of authenticity through a literature review, and utilized grounded theory to analyze the authenticity of culture-driven products. Through customer interviews, the concept of cultural authenticity factors is deconstructed. The results indicate that feelings of authenticity originate from the cultural message implied by the culture-driven product. Furthermore, cost and quality are determined as the main considerations for the rendering of cultural authenticity. Culture-driven products remain characterized by their basic features. Hence, customers cannot receive the cultural message if they are dissatisfied with the product cost and quality. Therefore, the research outcomes were used to develop a theoretical model for the design process of culture-driven products to assist designers in observing the needs of the target market, and to reconstruct the feelings of cultural authenticity by satisfying customer needs.

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Li, Li, and Shasha Li. "Do Tourists Really Care about Authenticity? A Study on Tourists’ Perceptions of Nature and Culture Authenticity." Sustainability 14, no. 5 (February 22, 2022): 2510. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14052510.

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The role that authenticity plays in tourism is debatable. Researchers have focused on the nature of authenticity, while the natural landscape is taken for granted as authentic. “Landscape” is the symbolic environment created by human acts of conferring meaning to nature and the environment. The concept of nature authenticity is proposed to enrich the connotation of authenticity. A structural equation model was used to analyze the relationships between motivation, perceived authenticity, destination image and satisfaction. The results indicate that perceived authenticity positively affects tourists’ perceptions of the destination image in both the context of nature (β = 0.51, p < 0.01) and the cultural context (β = 0.65, p < 0.01). Perceived authenticity also has positive effects on the satisfaction for both the natural (β = 0.42, p < 0.01) and cultural (β = 0.20, p < 0.01) aspects. Tourists valued both nature and culture authenticity in the Chinese context. As a newly emerged phenomenon, performing arts act as an effective way to demonstrate local culture and history. The moderating effect of a performing art show was discussed with model comparison. Tourists who watched the performing arts show thought highly of the authenticity of the destination, especially regarding the cultural aspect.

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Latiff, Khairunnisak, Siew Imm Ng, Yuhanis Abdul Aziz, and Norazlyn Kamal Basha. "Food authenticity as one of the stimuli to world heritage sites." British Food Journal 122, no. 6 (December 2, 2019): 1755–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-01-2019-0042.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discover authenticity dimensions that draw tourists to Melaka and George Town World Heritage Site. It also examined the mediating effect of attachment and the moderating effect of cultural motivation. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method design was used. Qualitative approach was conducted to discover authenticity dimensions followed by a quantitative approach to explore the dimensions’ ability in predicting attachment and intention to recommend. Findings Findings revealed that objective, existential and food authenticity were significant stimuli of recommend intention. The mediating effect of attachment on constructive authenticity-intention and existential authenticity-intention were also supported. Cultural motivation indeed moderated the relationship between objective authenticity-attachment, constructive authenticity-attachment and existential authenticity-attachment. Originality/value Knowing that authenticity can be perceived differently, therefore, a mixed-method study design offers more insight on discovering authenticity elements. Using a qualitative approach, the study began by exploring important authenticity dimensions from both supply and demand groups, and subsequently, these dimensions were verified using quantitative approach. As expected, food authenticity was found as a standalone dimension.

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Daza, Stephanie Lynn. "Decolonizing researcher authenticity." Race Ethnicity and Education 11, no. 1 (March 2008): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613320701845822.

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CHONG, TERENCE. "Manufacturing Authenticity: The Cultural Production of National Identities in Singapore." Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 4 (July 30, 2010): 877–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x09000158.

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AbstractAccording to Prasenjit Duara, the sacredness of the nation hinges on its ‘regimes of authenticity’ where timelessness and the politics of embodiment are key to an authentic national identity. This paper looks at three different cultural impulses that have attempted to manufacture authenticity in Singapore. They are: the Malay literary movementAngkatan Sasterawan 50prior to independence; the state-sponsored Confucian ethics discourse during the 1980s; and the romanticization of the working-class ‘heartlander’ through contemporary popular culture in confrontation with the politics of global capitalism and globalization. In doing so, this paper articulates the difference between the regimes of authenticity of state elites and non-state cultural producers, as well as their ‘national imaginaries’. It concludes that the regime of authenticity, that operationalizes the representations of the working class as a diametric opposite to the logic and force of globalization, offers the most popular symbols of national identity in Singapore.

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Soufan, Anas. "Notes on Authenticity and Development of Cultural Heritage in Syria." International Journal of Cultural Property 27, no. 2 (May 2020): 189–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739120000132.

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AbstractAccording to the Syrian philosopher T. Tizini (1934–2019), the dilemma of authenticity heritage in the Arab world has lost its factual conceptualization. While its societal and ideological issues have been rightly discussed, its technical aspects have been handled only superficially. In this article, I review the deep interconnectivities between the societal and technical aspects of the term “authenticity” and the reconstruction of the damaged architectural heritage in Syria after years of a devastating war. I suggest that any postwar reconstruction raises a central contradiction: rebuilding an element from the past in the present. While the destroyed physical fabrics might be reconstituted, the setting that gave them value and meaning can never be reestablished. For that reason, preserving the “authenticity” in the wide significance of the term seems unrealistic in the context of reconstructed heritage. Nevertheless, what several Syrian scholars and politicians describe as “authenticity by creativity” might be a possible outcome.

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Vandrewala, Sanaeya. "Borrowed Notion of Authenticity: Viewing Authenticity of Historic Houses in India using a Western Lens." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 16, no. 1 (February 5, 2020): 60–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620903313.

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Authenticity is considered by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as the link between attributes and Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). It is the ability of a property to truthfully, credibly, and genuinely convey its OUV through the attributes. However, these attributes or values are dependent on the site’s cultural associations and context. Therefore, the concept of authenticity is vague and may be subject to different cultural and social interpretations. Since authenticity is measured in time, there are multiple layers of authenticity which can be interpreted differently with diverse value systems. Since the notion of conservation is European in origin, so is the understanding of authenticity. In the Indian context due to a colonial past, the understanding of heritage protection and conservation with all the associated concepts are a borrowed notion from the Western world. This leads to the dilemma where a Western methodology for values and attributes is applied to assess the authenticity of the historic houses in India, based on which the authenticity of Indian historic houses becomes questionable when compared with international standards.

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Fadaei Nezhad, Somayeh, Parastoo Eshrati, and Dorna Eshrati. "A DEFINITION OF AUTHENTICITY CONCEPT IN CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 9, no. 1 (March 18, 2015): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v9i1.473.

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Cultural landscape can be defined as the result of human interaction with nature over time, which has led to the formation of the many and diverse layers of value. Currently, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre has a unique role among other scientific associations. In recent years, the World Heritage Center has put efforts into developing a framework and measures for evaluation and management of cultural landscapes. Moreover, the concept of authenticity; as the transmitter of values and significance of cultural landscape, is considered as the key component in the process of cultural landscape conservation. A lot of scientific resources have pointed out the importance of authenticity in the process of conserving cultural landscapes. However, the role of authenticity within the domain of conservation of cultural landscapes has received little attention. One of the main reasons can be lack of adaptation between conventional definitions of UNESCO and international documents concerning the authenticity for including the flexible and dynamic structure of cultural landscapes around the world. Therefore, this paper seeks to explore and develop a flexible framework in order to redefine the concept of authenticity in relation to cultural landscapes, which has some overlaps with UNESCO definitions despite its differences. For developing this framework, Iranian-Islamic philosophy of Mollasadra is applied and described with some examples of cultural landscapes in Iran.

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Sprague, Justin. "Ghost in the Kitchen: Multiracial Korean Americans (Re)Defining Cultural Authenticity." Genealogy 6, no. 2 (April 29, 2022): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020035.

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This scholarly essay explores some techniques that multiracial Korean Americans employ to trouble traditional notions of cultural authenticity as markers for racial/ethnic identity construction. I position multiracial individuals as foils to the common assumptions that cultural authenticity requires “native” lived experience, “full bloodedness”, or a particular level of linguistic competency, in favor of cultural competency, analyzing the web community, HalfKorean.com. The site is a U.S.-based community of multiracial Korean Americans, where narrations of food and Korean motherwork play roles in many elements of the site, and in different ways work to reinforce new and adaptable forms of authenticity. Paying particular attention to the ways that cultural knowledge on the individual level becomes a marker for shaping community, I position Korean motherwork and household practices as vehicles of analysis. These embodied cultural practices inform community building practices, becoming critical variables for multiracial Korean Americans to exert cultural knowledge and expertise, authenticating flexible racial/cultural identities, which is an act of embodying what I term “plastic authenticity”. Multiracial bodies are inherently perceived as racially in-authentic; however, plastic authenticity is a framework that allows for expressions of identity and memory that resist this notion, grounded in their proximity to Korean women/motherhood.

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Zhang, Tao, Huijun Wen, and Xi Li. "A Tourist-Based Model of Authenticity of Heritage Sporting Events: The Case of Naadam." Sustainability 11, no. 1 (December 25, 2018): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11010108.

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As one of the important forms of intangible cultural heritage, heritage sporting events are becoming a potential catalyst of tourism. Commodification of heritage sporting events becomes popular for local authorities to boost economic development and express cultural authenticity, given that authenticity creates genuine performances and moving tourism experiences. However, commodification of heritage is a double-edged sword. It is a dilemma to commercialize a heritage sporting event while keeping its authenticity. Therefore, this study proposes a tourist-based model of authenticity to solve this problem, in which the authenticity of heritage sporting events incorporates “cool” and “hot” factors. The model examines these factors and their impact on tourist satisfaction and loyalty using Naadam as the example. Seven hundred questionnaires were distributed at six sites located from east to west of the Inner Mongolia, China. Factor analysis shows there are two factors in cool and hot authenticity, respectively. Both factors of cool authenticity have direct impacts on hot authenticity, satisfaction, and loyalty. Though both intrapersonal and interpersonal factors of hot authenticity have direct positive impacts on tourist satisfaction, only the former affects loyalty directly. The results show the authenticity of event culture is the most important and effective authentic factor, while authentic auxiliary products—the direct expression of commodification—is indispensable for authenticity. This study is helpful for maintaining authenticity and cultural sustainability of heritage sporting events as a destination tourism attraction, given the fact that commodification and the marketing of heritage sporting events has become popular for heritage destination development.

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Lu, Wenwen, Yongjun Su, Sitan Su, Jie Zhao, and Li Zhang. "Perceived Authenticity and Experience Quality in Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism: The Case of Kunqu Opera in China." Sustainability 14, no. 5 (March 3, 2022): 2940. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14052940.

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In the era of the experience economy, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is now much a richer in terms of authenticity, which largely enriches the tourist experience. This study aims to apply authenticity theory to the field of intangible cultural heritage tourism (ICHT) and to analyze the relationship between the dual dimensions of tourists’ perceived authenticity (constructivism and existentialism) and experience quality and satisfaction. A total of 302 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling through a survey of Kunqu Opera, a World ICH in China. The results of this study confirm that the dual dimensions of authenticity (constructive and existential) have significantly different effects on experience quality and satisfaction. Furthermore, with regard to the mediating effect of experience quality, experience quality plays a partially mediating role between existential authenticity and satisfaction. However, constructive authenticity is a positive influence on satisfaction through existential authenticity and experience quality. This article is concluded with a discussion on the theoretical and managerial implications.

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Penrose, Jan. "Authenticity, authentication and experiential authenticity: telling stories in museums." Social & Cultural Geography 21, no. 9 (November 30, 2018): 1245–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1550581.

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Potowski, Kim. "Linguistic and cultural authenticity of ‘Spanglish’ greeting cards." International Journal of Multilingualism 8, no. 4 (November 2011): 324–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2011.606908.

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Jones, Candace, N. Anand, and Josè Luis Alvarez. "Manufactured Authenticity and Creative Voice in Cultural Industries." Journal of Management Studies 42, no. 5 (July 2005): 893–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00525.x.

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Feldman, Walter. "Cultural Authority and Authenticity in the Turkish Repertoire." Asian Music 22, no. 1 (1990): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/834291.

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Su, Junjie. "Conceptualising the subjective authenticity of intangible cultural heritage." International Journal of Heritage Studies 24, no. 9 (January 21, 2018): 919–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1428662.

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Sampson, Fiona. "Heidegger and the Aporia: Translation and Cultural Authenticity." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9, no. 4 (December 2006): 527–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230600942000.

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Leistra-Jones, Karen. "Staging Authenticity." Journal of the American Musicological Society 66, no. 2 (2013): 397–436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.2013.66.2.397.

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AbstractJoseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms, and other members of their circle were important figures in the ascendancy of the Werktreue paradigm of performance in the second half of the nineteenth century. This article explores the ways in which their approach to Werktreue intersected with a broader ideal of “authentic” subjectivity. An authentic performer, according to this ideal, would be true to himself or herself, absorbed in the music, oblivious of the audience, and restrained in gestures and overall expressivity. I examine how these musicians performed authenticity in different types of self-representation, including autobiographical writings, portraits, and musical performances. Furthermore, I explore the connection between the subjectivity modeled in their performances and the aesthetic ideology of nonprogrammatic instrumental music. Concerns about authenticity played an important role in the struggle over the ownership of the Austro-German musical tradition; debates about which performers were “authentic” often hinged on the question of who could claim the cultural and spiritual aptitude necessary to inhabit the thoughts of master composers. In this context, the performative strategies associated with authenticity also evoked social codes associated with gender, nationality, and race during a period in which participation in Germanic culture was being conceived of in increasingly exclusive terms.

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Moosa, Zakiyya. "Authenticity and Commodification of Cultural Events for the Maldivian Tourism Industry." International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management 7, no. 2 (April 2016): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijabim.2016040102.

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Authentication and commodification of cultural events for the tourists has been practiced for a long time. These practices have had both positive and negative effects on the host community and its cultural heritage. Tourism deals with experiences sold to tourists which has had to be authentic. Therefore, this paper aims to look at the authenticity and commodification of cultural events presented for the benefit of tourists throughout the resorts in the Maldives and its implications on authenticity of cultural products offered to the tourists. Authenticity played a wide role in tourist experiences and repeat business for the destination. Commodification on the other hand is a byproduct of making the events authentic in order for it to be presented to the tourists since these events cannot be presented in its original form or length. Hence, the events are ‘staged' for the benefit of the tourists because cross cultural encounters drive authenticity of the tourism experience and create more business to the destination.

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Armstrong, Edward G. "Eminem's Construction of Authenticity." Popular Music and Society 27, no. 3 (September 2004): 335–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007760410001733170.

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Gray, Herman. "Authenticity, anxiety and masculinity." American Quarterly 50, no. 2 (1998): 397–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aq.1998.0014.

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Sinha, Nilanjana, Himadri Roy Chaudhuri, Jie G. Fowler, and Sitanath Mazumdar. "Market-mediated authenticity in culturally themed culinary space." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 21, no. 3 (June 11, 2018): 353–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qmr-07-2016-0059.

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PurposeThis paper aims to explore authenticity as a multidimensional construct from both consumer and service provider perspectives in the context of culturally themed restaurants in Kolkata, India.Design/methodology/approachUtilizing a phenomenological design, data have been collected through participant observation, photographs and semi-structured interviews in Bengali-themed restaurants over a two-year period.FindingsBy articulating the processes and dimensions that operate behind the narrative of authenticity, the findings display the interaction between market/cultural forces and the perception of authenticity. These reveal that authenticity embraces four major categories, namely, traditional, staged-form, postmodern and constructivist.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides insights into the collective role of both consumers and service providers in mediating perceptions of authenticity. Theoretically, this study contributes to the literature by articulating four dimensions of authenticity.Practical implicationsPractically, this study assists marketers with insights into the balance of authenticity and the commoditization of culture.Originality/valueAs globalization weakens cultural boundaries and jeopardizes regional identities, there is a need for reassuring cultural continuity that upholds ethnic legacy for local consumers. Thus, this study provides theoretical and practical insights for both researchers and practitioners concerned about maintaining authenticity in a global marketplace.

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Anker-Hansen, Jens, and Maria Andreé. "In Pursuit of Authenticity in Science Education." Nordic Studies in Science Education 15, no. 1 (January 28, 2019): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nordina.4723.

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This article presents a systematic review of how authenticity is used in science education research and discusses the implications these uses have for the design of science education classroom practices. Authenticity has been discussed in education for decades. However, the authenticity of science education not only concerns the design of educational activities, but also the content of what is being taught. This article reviews research articles published in 2013 and 2014, in the three highest ranking journals in science education, regarding how authenticity is framed in science education. The findings suggest that the uses vary greatly from referring to externally defined practices to student relevance. The findings are discussed with the notions of cultural and personal authenticity to suggest important aspects involved with designing science classroom activities authentic to the different references. Based on the review, we have developed a strategy for balancing authenticity in science education classroom practices between cultural and personal authenticity.

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Lee, Gyehee, Xiao Lin, Yunseon Choe, and Wenya Li. "In the Eyes of the Beholder: The Effect of the Perceived Authenticity of Sanfang Qixiang in Fuzhou, China, among Locals and Domestic Tourists." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 9, 2021): 12353. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212353.

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Many historic and cultural heritage destinations have faced queries about authentic travel experiences and crises of commoditization related to tourism products. This study is based on the dyadic function of heritage destinations for both locals and domestic tourists: heritage as a spatial-temporal object for tourists, using authenticity as a theoretical framework. It examined the (1) effects of cultural motivations and prior knowledge on both object-based and existential authenticities, (2) effects of authenticity on destination experiences, and (3) moderating role of residential status on the relationship between authenticity and destination experience. The data were collected from 173 locals and 159 domestic tourists on site in the Sanfang Qixiang tourist district and analyzed using the SEM technique. The results indicated that cultural motivation and prior knowledge had significant effects on authenticity; however, only existential authenticity enhanced the destination experience, whereas object-based authenticity did not have an effect on the destination experience. In addition, residential status had a key moderating function in the relationship between the perception of authenticity and the destination experience. This study contributes to the literature by integrating the mutual gaze into heritage tourism literature and emphasizing the importance of a balance between authenticity and commoditization in heritage destination development in Asia. The findings hold some practical implications for the development of balanced management strategies to minimize potential conflicts and maximize user satisfaction with heritage tourism.

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Rivera, Grace N., Andrew G. Christy, Jinhyung Kim, Matthew Vess, Joshua A. Hicks, and Rebecca J. Schlegel. "Understanding the Relationship Between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being." Review of General Psychology 23, no. 1 (March 2019): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000161.

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A central tenet of many prominent philosophical and psychological traditions is that personal authenticity facilitates psychological well-being. This idea, however, is at odds with numerous perspectives arguing that it is difficult, if not impossible, to really know one's self, or the true self may not even exist. Moreover, empirical findings suggest that reports of authenticity are often contaminated by positively valenced behavior, further potentially undermining the validity of authenticity measures. Despite these concerns, we argue that subjective feelings of authenticity do uniquely contribute to well-being. Specifically, we argue that the relationship between perceived authenticity and well-being may be understood from a social-cognitive lay theory perspective that we label “true-self-as-guide,” that suggests people use these feelings of authenticity as a cue to evaluate whether they are living up to a shared cultural value of what it means to live a good life. We end with a call for future research on the antecedents of perceived authenticity, boundary conditions for the consequences of personal authenticity, and discuss cultural differences in true-self-as-guide lay theories.

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Li, Xi, Huawen Shen, and Huijun Wen. "A Study on Tourists Perceived Authenticity towards Experience Quality and Behavior Intention of Cultural Heritage in Macao." International Journal of Marketing Studies 8, no. 4 (July 27, 2016): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v8n4p117.

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<p>This study is basically an explorative and explanatory research, with the overall purpose to identify, explore and analyze the tourists’ perceived authenticity of culture heritage. This study proposes to identify and evaluate the impact of authenticity by tourists’ perceptions of culture heritage on their experience quality and behavioral intention, from which implications for the sustainable development of culture heritage tourism can be derived. The results showed that perceived authenticity has a positive effect on experience quality. Furthermore, experience quality performed a significance function in behavioral intention, while the effect of perceived authenticity on behavioral intention is insignificant. These results imply that the importance of perceived authenticity on behavioral intentions is recognized via the mediating effects of experience quality.</p>

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