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Introduction: What Is Reenactment?

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183

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25

Abstract
Introduction:What Is Reenactment? Vanessa Agnew As anyone who has swabbed decks and gone aloft knows, reenactment is fun. It indulges the twin passions of work and play, which are generally divorced from each other. It licenses dressing up, pretending and improvising, casting oneself as the protagonist of one's own research, and getting others to play along. Of course, it also calls for discomfort...
Keywords
Passions
Spectacle
Historiography
History
Aesthetics
Representation (politics)
Visual arts
Media studies
Art
Sociology
Literature
Law
Political science
Politics
Archaeology

2004
Article

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Introduction: What Is Reenactment?
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Introduction: What Is Reenactment?

Citations:

183

References:

25

Abstract
Introduction:What Is Reenactment? Vanessa Agnew As anyone who has swabbed decks and gone aloft knows, reenactment is fun. It indulges the twin passions of work and play, which are generally divorced from each other. It licenses dressing up, pretending and improvising, casting oneself as the protagonist of one's own research, and getting others to play along. Of course, it also calls for discomfort...
Keywords
Passions
Spectacle
Historiography
History
Aesthetics
Representation (politics)
Visual arts
Media studies
Art
Sociology
Literature
Law
Political science
Politics
Archaeology

2004
Article

pdf file