Contents
List of Figures x
List of Contributors xiv
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Introduction: Global Reenactment, Local Practices? 1
VANESSA AGNEW, SABINE STACH, AND JULIANE TOMANN
PART I
Raising Questions of Evidence 15
2 Reenacting 9/11 on Screen 17
JAMES CHANDLER
3 Crime Scene: Reconstruction in the Works of Forensic
Architecture and Robert Kusmirowski 37
DOROTA SOSNOWSKA
4 Indigenous, I Presume?: Unexpected Outcomes of Repatriation
and Reenactments of Photographic Archives in the Upper Amazon 54
CHRISTIAN VIUM
PART II
Reaffirming Understandings of the Past 75
5 In Honor of the Forefathers: Archaeological Reenactment between History Appropriation and Ideological Mission.
The Case of Ulfhednar 77
Ralf Hoppadietz and karin Reichenbach
6 Retracing the Revolution: Partisan Reenactments in Socialist
Yugoslavia 105
NIKOLA BAKOVIC
7 Reenacting the Revolution: The Sacred Site of Yan’an
in Contemporary China 125
MARC ANDRE MATTEN
8 Reenacting Japan’s Past That Never Was: The Ninja
in Tourism and Larp 146
BJORN-OLE KAMM
PART III
Challenging Narratives about the Past 171
9 “Are We Heroes Too?”: Reenacting the 1949 Offensive
against the Dutch Occupation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia 173
LISE ZURNE
10 Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman
Past through Creating the Evliya ^elebi Way 195
DONNA LANDRY AND GERALD MACLEAN
11 “You can’t just put men in the field and be accurate”:
Women in American Revolutionary War Reenactment 217
JULIANE TOMANN
PART IV
Restaging Lives 235
12 Exhibition as Reenactment: Kazimir Malevich at the Tretiakov
Gallery, 1929 237
MARIE GASPER-HULVAT
13 The Body as Time Machine: Reenactment in Lola Arias’s
Documentary Performance 253
BRENDA WERTH
14 On Motives for Reenactment: The Example of the Kindertransport 272
BILL NIVEN
PART V
Negotiating Justice 285
15 Reenacting the Cambodian Genocide: Performances
of Memory in Ella Pugliese’s Documentary Movie
We Want [u] to Know (2009) 287
STEPHANIE BENZAQUEN-GAUTIER
16 Performing Violence: Trauma and Reenactment
in Documentary Film 308
CHARLEY BOERMAN AND BORIS NOORDENBOS
Index 333