INDEX
Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures.
3D modelling 39, 215-216, 217
1900 House (television show) 64, 66
abandoned sites 13, 13
Abbey of St. Stephen (Germany) 103, 105 Abramovic, Marina 113; Seven Easy Pieces exhibition (Guggenheim, 2005) 18-19, 112
Abu Daher, Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh 82 Abu Rahma, Bassem 79 access and able-bodied assumptions 31 accreditation 20, 21
Achieving Truth: Creating the Physicality of War on
Stage (University of Ottawa, 2018) 220-221 acting and actors (in reenactments): in The
Arbor 51; and artifacts, presentation of 132; authenticity of 55-58; hardcore 59-60, 74, 76, 121; naturalist 171; scholar-performers 106; as supporting accepted historical narratives 64-65; and witnessing the past 64; see also FARBs Addison, Joseph 40; Spectator 41 Adler, Stella 171
Adorno, Theodor W 213, 215, 217-218 affect see emotion and affect “affordance” concept 131
African Americans 165-166, 185 age 65 agency and free choice 8, 18-19, 84, 88, 122-123 Agnew, Vanessa: on affect 109; on ahistoricity
of reenactments 92; and the challenges of reenactment 112, 114; on democratization of historical knowledge 135; on genocide representation 117, 215-217; Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History 7; on reenactments as “affective history” 53;
Refugee Plaque 48; on refugee reenactments 176 Aksoy, Faruk: Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453) 144
Aktenzeichen XY ungelδst [Case Unsolved] television show 61
Albert (Prince) 207 alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt) 200
Allen, Jennifer 112 amateurism see expertise and amateurism American Civil War reenactments: and battle
reenactments 25-28; and FARBs 75, 121; politicization of 185; popularity of 45, 112, 156; reenactors in 64, 74, 76; scripted vs.
improvised 181; see also specific battle reenactmentsAmerican Indian Wars 26
American Revolution 25
America’s Most Wanted television show 61
anamnesis 97, 187
Anderson, Benedict 144
Anderson, Jay 170
Ankersmit, Franklin R.
142Anno (digital game) 84
Ant Farm: The Eternal Frame 51, 201 Antiquarian Society of Zurich 67 antiquity 72-73, 100, 102-105 Arai, Tatsushi 222-223 “archeo-technicians” 70-71 architecture 102; see also Forensic Architecture Archive/Practice (Leipzig, 2009) 113 archives and archiving 11-15, 113, 192 Archive tanzen (Salzburg, 2002) 113
Arendt, Hannah 46
Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furiosio 100
Aristotle 4, 142; Poetics 151
Arns, Inke 7, 16, 17, 18, 112-113, 134 art and artistic reenactments 2, 16-19, 112, 134,
181, 199; see also mediality
Asisi,Yadegar: Dresden 1945 and Baroque
Dresden 46
Asparn (open-air museum, Austria) 69 Assassin's Creed (digital game) 84, 85 Assmann, Aleida 139, 140
Assmann, Jan 139 audiences and visitors: authenticity established by 21; and emotions, experiencing 55; and first- person interpretation 122; motivations of 123; participation of 18, 19, 153
Auerbach, Erich 142 augmented reality (AR) 10, 215 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland) 44, 215—216; Hungarian national exhibit 21—22, 22
Auslander, Mark 222
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey 36, 37 Austin, John Langshaw 2, 90, 169 Australia: colonial reenactments in 26; educational reenactments in 183; historical pageants in 165; second-person interpretation in 207; settlercolonial past of 65
Austria, experimental archaeology in 67 authenticity: and authentication process 21,
22; in battle reenactments 29; centrality to reenactment 1,3, 8—9, 11, 15; definition and overview 20—24, 183—186; and discomfort 47; and DIY approach 132; and experimental archaeology 73; and hardcore reenactors 76; and Historically Informed Performance 107—109; and immersion 181; importance of 3; and living history 121; and media artistic reenactments 134; object 132, 160—161; practices of 23; and wardrobe 63-64, 74—77
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium 107 authorship 18-20
backstage workers 55
Bacon, Francis 67; New Atlantis 43 Balzac, Honore de 142
Barnard, Clio: The Arbor 50-52 Barthes, Roland 86, 192 Battlefield (digital game) 84, 85 Battle of Bull Run (Virginia) 73
Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) 26, 27, 45, 135 Battle of Hastings (England) 58
Battle of Somme (France) 200
Battle ofWaterloo (Belgium) 28, 28 battle reenactments 25-29, 199, 201 Baudrillard, Jean 192 Bauml, Franz 143
BBC: Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (documentary) 32, 32; The Ship documentary 23-24
Beauvoir, Simone de 33 Becket, Thomas 59, 176
Beckford, William 103, 104-105 Beecher, Henry Ward 45
“before-and-after images” 83
Benjamin, Walter 134; “Theses on the Philosophy of History” 147
Bent, Margaret 109
Bentham, Jeremy 216
Benzaquen-Gautier, Stephanie 5, 199
Beorg Wic festival (Australia) 170
Bergson, Henri 138
Berkeley, George 40
Berlin-Duppel (open-air museum, Germany) 69 biblical performances 25
Bidlo, Mike 112
Big data, see also ‘Forensic architecture' and truth claims arising from 215-217
Bin Laden, Osama 85
Bishop, Claire 155
Blackson, Robert 154-155
Blumenberg, Hans 210
bodies: as archives 12, 14-15, 30, 33, 113; in artistic reenactment 17; cultural contexts, within 30-31; and dance reenactments 113; and emotion 17, 53; histrionic control of 95; in performance 14, 30, 32-33; and trauma 220; as vehicles for historical knowledge 7
Body Heat (film) 158
Bolsover castle (Derbyshire, England) 100
Bonnett, Alisdair 159
Boswell, James 45-46
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques 68
Bourdieu, Pierre 30
Bowan, Kate 8, 60
Boyle, Robert 4, 40, 42
Boym, Svetlana 158
Brady, Matthew 197
A Breathtaking Journey 86-87, 87 Brecht, Bertolt 45, 150, 171, 200
Brechtian techniques of alienation 2
Breed, Ananda 223
Breker, Ralf 216
Brewer, John 109
British Museum (London) 68
Bruner, Edward 20, 29, 77
Bruzzi, Stella 5; New Documentary 49
Brygzel, Ami 19
Burke, Edmund 212
Buster Farm (UK) 69
Butler, Judith 90, 169, 172
Butt, John 110
Byron, John 42
Byzantine art 126
Caen (France) 102, 105
Caesar, Julius 72
Caillois, Roger 179
Calderon, Luisa 39
Callahan, Erret 71
Call of Duty (digital game) 84, 85, 86
Camino pilgrimage 176 “campaigners” and “authentic campaigners” 76 Canada, historical pageants in 165
Cannon Hall Napoleonic Reenactment Day (2009) 180
Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768) 23—24 Cassin, Barbara 159
cause and effect 41; in historical narrative 18, 136, 152, see also empiricism
Cavendish, Charles and William 100
Certeau, Michel de 192; The Practice of Everyday Life 14
Cervantine fiction 36
Chambers, Ephraim: Cyclopaedia: Or, an Universal
Dictionary of Arts and Sciences 101 Chapman, Adam 84, 87—88 Chapman, George 95 charivari 188
Charleton, Walter 42 Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales 176 Chekhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich 171 Chernobyl 44
Chicago's Pocket Guide to Hell 193, 194 Christian traditions 125-127, 147, 174-176, 187;
see also Eucharist; Last Supper ritual Christie, Agatha 61 Chr isty, Henry 68 Civilization (digital game) 84, 86 class issues 65, 90
Cody, William “Buffalo Bill” 26 Coetzee, John M.: Elizabeth Costello 197 cogito 40, 195
Colbert, Stephen 23
Cold War 85
Cole, Peter: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza 149-150
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 41 Coles, John 71
Collingwood, Robin George: on emotional reliving 55; on historian's work 172;
The Idea of History 59-61, 122, 135-136; on ideas and mental reflection 34, 195;
and metalepsis 24; ontological approach of 40; Outlines of a Philosophy of History 60;
Pickering on 5; on reenactment and historical thinking 190
Cologne Tribes 204
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation (open-air museum) 73
colonial reenactments 26
Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia) 92, 120, 183, 185, 192
Columbus Day event (1992) 222 commemoration 8, 11, 138-141 commercialization 29 commodification 18, 44, 158, 205, 208 common man trope 26 communist regimes 19
communitas 174, 203
confession 23-24
Conflict of Nations: Modern War 85
conjecture 34-38
Connerton, Paul 171; How Societies Remember 140
Connor Prairie (Indiana) 122-123, 123
Constantinople, conquest of 144-146
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) 81
Cook, James 35-36, 42-43, 55, 214
copies 20-21 corroboration 2, 36, 39-43
cosplay 206, 208
cotillions 32, 32-33
“Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture” exhibition (ICA, 2018) 83
covenant chain tradition 118
Coyer, Gabriel-Francois Abbe: Supplement of
Anson’s Voyage 42
craft techniques 67, 70, 77, 120, 172, 183; see also experimental archaeology
Crenshaw, Kimberle 89
crime fiction 60-61
crime scene reenactments 39; suffering 215-217
Crimewatch television show 61
Criticism journal 111 crowd-witnessing 39
Crowell, Steven Galt 156
Crusader Kings (digital game) 84
Cummins, Robert 198
Cushman, Steven 28
Dante (Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri) 143 dark tourism 44-48, 86
Darwin, Erasmus 40
data-sharing platforms 39
Daugbjerg, Mads 26, 181
the dead 30, 37, 38, 45; see also dark tourism
Debord, Guy: La Societe du Spectacle 17-18 decolonization 116, 158
“delayed performatives” 92
Deller, Jeremy: The Battle of Orgreave 17, 50-51, 114, 134, 141,152, 154-155, 159, 171; We’re Here Because We’re Here 200
Demnig, Gunter: Stolperstein Projekt 46-47, 48
Demosthenes: “On the Crown” speech 211
Dening, Greg 3, 7, 172
Denmark: World War II reenactments in 76, 77
Denzin, Norman K.
117Derrida, Jacques 113, 192; Archive Fever 12
Descartes, Rene 4-5, 34, 40, 59, 195
DeSilvey, Caitlin 13
Diamond, Elin 90
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations 37
Dickinson, Rod 112; Milgram Reenactment
199-200, 217
Diderot, Denis: Supplement au voyage de
Bougainville 42
“difficult” or “dissonant” heritage see dark tourism digital information and technology 3—4, 14; see also games and gaming
digital wargame groups 86; see also games and gaming
disability 31 documentary films 12, 49—52, 77; see also individual films
documentation as evidence 57
“do it yourself” (DIY) approach 132 Dolmetsch, Arnold 107, 108
Donington, Robert 107 Doyle, Arthur Conan 61
DuBois, W. E. B.: The Star of Ethiopia 165—166, 167 Ducarel, Andrew Coltee: Anglo-Norman Antiquities Considered in a Tour Through Part of Normandy 102-105, 103
Dunbar, Andrea 51-52
Dungeons and Dragons 208 Durkheim, Emile 138 DutchVR Days 87
Early Music journal 107
Early Music Revival 106-110
Eastern Europe, artistic reenactments in 19 ecological psychology 87
Edmonds, Penny 5 Ehrmann, Jacques 179
Eisenstein, Sergei: October (film) 26 Elizabeth I (Queen) 165 “embodied documentation” (or “performative documentation”) 18
embodiment: and becoming 33; and bodily features of reenactors 65; defined 31; of gender 90; heritage as 100-101; and Historically Informed Performance 107; in indigenous reenactments 117, 119; and living history performers 121; and presence 131; through wardrobe 63-64; and trauma reenactments 221; see also bodies
emotion and affect: and authenticity 53, 55; and confession 23-24; and documentaries 51, 52; eliciting 1, 9; and embodiment 17, 53; and Historically Informed Performance 107-110; of historical persons 54, 55; and historical work 60; individual and collective 59; Magelssen on 8; in performance scholarship 89; performativity of reenactment evoking 171; in reenactments 34, 56; subjective 54-55; through immersion 18 emotionology 54 emplotment 152 empiricism 4-6, 40 enactments, defined 49-50 English Civil War 25, 185
English Heritage organization 100 ephemerality 113 epistemology, conjecture in 34
Ergiessung concept 212
Esmark, Kim 76
esoteric religious movements 204
Eucharist ritual 46, 202, 203
Europe: educational reenactments in 183; second-person interpretation in 207; see also individual countries
European Research Council 79 evidence: archival 13-14; bodies as 9, 14-15; and dark tourism 45; definition and overview 5762; and digital information 4; and essentialized identities 65; and experience 9; reenactment groups' approach to 185
Evreinov, Nikolai: Storming of the Winter Palace 16, 26, 135, 152-155
EXARC Journal 70
executions 46
exhibition format 83
Experience, Memory, Reenactment project 16 experience of reenactments 8-9, 22-23, 38, 63-66, 107
experimental archaeology 3, 16, 67-73, 184, 189 expertise and amateurism 71, 74-78 extra-illustration practice (or grangerizing) 100-102, 103, 104, 105
eyewitness observation 4, 35, 38, 40, 152, 155
Eyup district (Istanbul) 144
FARBs 57, 75-76; see also acting and actors
Farrier, David: Dark Tourist 47
Fast, Omer 112
Fauconnier, Gilles 193
Faustian reenactors 5
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 103-104 fetishization 18
fiction 2, 36-38; see also individual works
fidelity and infidelity 91
Figgis, Mike 134; The Battle of Orgreave 50-51, 154 figural relationships between past and present 143 filter bubble concept 9
Fink, Eugen 179, 181
first- and third-person shooter games (FPS/TPS) 84; see also individual games
first-person interpretation 120-122, 170, 206; see also living history
first-person perspective digital games 88
Fitzgerald, Penelope 37-38
Flaherty, Robert 49
Flinders, Matthew 42
fog of war motif 23, 28
Forensic Architecture 3, 6, 39, 43, 79-83, 215; and truth claims arising from 215-217
“Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics” exhibition (MACBA, 2017) 83
Forster, Edward Morgan 152
Forster, Johann and Georg 35, 36 fort-da (gone-there) principle 46
Foucault, Michel: on archives 12; disparate sources accessed by 82; on historical meaning 192; parrhesia concept 129; on reenactment studies 7; souci de soi concept 128; on subjectivities and history 64
fourth wall 24
France, experimental archaeology in 68
Franke, Amselm: “Forensis” exhibition (2014) 83 Fraser, Andrea 112
“freezing” dimension of material documentation 18
Freid, David: Nazi VR 215-216, 216
French realist authors 142
French Revolution 153
Freud, Sigmund 41,46, 138, 190, 222;
“Remembering, Repeating and Working Through” 52
Frezier, Amedee-Franςois 42
Future Generations Ride (North America) 118 “Future Shock” (Alvin and Heidi Toffler) 191
Gable, Eric 121,192
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 179
Galilei, Galileo 67
Gallagher, Catherine 196
Gallanti, Fabrizio 6, 217
games and gaming 3, 58-59, 84-88, 179-180 Games for Change (organization) 87
Gapps, Stephen 23, 108
“garbsnarks” 58; see also stitch-Nazis; “thread counters”
Gaza conflict 81-83
gender issues 65, 89-93, 169, 172, 185-186; see also non-binary and trans* persons; women
genizot 149
genocide 44, 45, 116, 117, 215-217, 219-223
Germany: dance heritage in 113; National Socialists in 1930s 69, 69; Weimar Republic period 68-69
gesture 94-96
Getty Images 152-153 ghost images 21
Gilbert, Helen 116, 119
Girard, Rene 128
Giuliani, Rudolf 40
Glassberg, David 165
Gmelin, Felix: Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II 17 Goldsmiths College (University of London) 79-81 Golin, Steve 166
Goodman, Nelson 151
grand tours 46
Granger, James: A Biographical History of
England 104
Gray, Thomas: Elegy in a Country Churchyard 36-37
Greek culture and mythic history 143, 187
188,213
Greengrass, Paul: United 93 51
Ground Zero 44
Guggenheim Museum 18 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich 130
habitus concept 30-31
Hahne, Hans: Stone Age house (Rossen, Germany)
68-69
Haines, Elizabeth 8 hajj pilgrimage 97-99, 176, 187 Halbwachs, Maurice 138-139 Hall, Stuart 198
Handler, Richard 29, 121, 192 handshake gesture 118 Hanning, Reinhold 215 Hansen, Hans-Ole 71,72 Harrison, Rodney 101 Hart, Lain 76
Harvey, David C.
101-102 Hauka trance ritual (Ghana) 135 heritage and heritage sites 3, 8, 12, 100-105, 144 heroism 26, 38Hertford pageants (England) 164-165
Hesse Office for Constitutional Protection
(Landesamtfur Verfassungsschutz) 82 Heyerdahl, Thor 189-190 high culture and political elites 15 Hinz, Melanie 56
Hirsch, Marianne 148-149
historian’s work 59-60, 78 Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) 209 “historical faith” of readers 197
Historically Informed Performance (HIP) 3,
106-110; see also music and sound historical meaning, production of 27, 55,
191-194
historical reality television 171, 188-189
Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn journal 111-112
Historic Fort Snelling (United States) 120, 121 history: defining 112; disruptive potential of
66; Hayden White on 143; spectral 156; as unfinished 27; Western linear concept of 135 History Will Repeat Itself project (Berlin and
Dusseldorf, 2007) 16, 112
histotainment 72
Hjerl Hede and Lejre (open-air museums, Denmark) 69
HMB Endeavour voyage (2012) 189; see also Cook, James
Hobbes, Thomas 4, 34-36, 41; Leviathan 198 Hodge, Robert Lee 197
Hofer, Johannes 157
Hoffman, Adina: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza 149-150
Hole-in-the-Day, William 165 Hollywood 117 Holman Jones, Stacy 5
Holocaust 148-149, 177, 215; see also World War II Holocaust industry 223
Holtorf, Cornelius 131-132 Homer's Odyssey 39, 95-96
Hooke, Robert 4, 40
Horace: Ars Poetica 217 Horn, Gabriele 112
Horwitz, Tony 193, 196; Confederates in the Attic 112
House (television show) 63, 65, 112 Hughes, Catherine 193
Hughes-Warrington, Marnie 60 Huizinga, Johan: Homo Ludens 178-179 humanistic approaches 70 human rights 79-80
Hume, David 4, 40 Hunnic culture 204
The Huscarls group 184 “hyper-historians” 122
ideas and imagination 4-5, 34, 37, 38, 40-41, 107-109
identity categories 89-90; see also gender; intersectionality
ihram clothing 97
immersion 130, 134-136 imperialist nostalgia 158 Indian hobbyists 202-203 indigeneity and indigenous reenactments 26, 115-119, 116, 140, 165, 166, 172, 202-204 indigenous dispossession 65
Indonesia, educational reenactments in 183 Indonesian military coup (1965-1966) 94-95 inductive and deductive methods 67 industrial era 85, 120, 164 injustice, spaces of 39
International Workers of the World (IWW) 166 intersectionality 89-90
Iron Age 77
IRWIN collective (Slovenia) 19 Islamic traditions 126, 174-176; see also hajj pilgrimage
Israel, Jews and Palestinians in 223 Israeli Defense Forces 79, 81
Iti, Tame 117, 118
Jackson, Anthony 193 James, Henry: The Bostonians 156
Jane Austen Festival (Bath, UK) 171 Japan 222-223
Jennings, Humphrey 49 Jerusalem as pilgrimage site 174-176
Jesus Christ 1-2
Jewish traditions 126, 127, 147-150, 174-176, 187 jingoism 29
Johnson, Katherine Maree 31 Johnson, Samuel: Rambler papers 36
Kames, Lord 41; Sketches of the History of Man
35-37
Kant, Immanuel 35, 41, 212
Kaprow, Allan: Baggage 19
Karostas Cietums military (Latvia) 45
Kassel investigation (Germany) 82, 83 Kelly, Ann 12
Kelterborn, Peter 71
Kennedy, John F. 51,201 Kerman, Joseph 107 Kidd, Jenny 193
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara 193 Kittler, Friedrich A.
12Kivy, Peter: Authenticities 108
Kline, Franz 3
Knighton, Tess 108-109 knowledge, reliabile 23 knowledge production 9, 34
Kontejner collective (Croatia) 19
Kon Tiki expedition (1947) 189-190
Kopytoff, Igor: “The Cultural Biography of Things” 131
Kossinnas, Gustaf: folkloric settlement archaeology project (Berlin) 69
Kracauer, Siegfried 136 Krasner, David 166
Kuma/War (digital game) 85
Kurtz, Glenn: Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film 149
Lake Constance (Germany) 72 Landowska, Wanda 107
Landsberg, Alison 47, 160
Landshut Wedding pageant 72-73
Laocoon and his sons 214, 214, 217
Lartet, Eduard 68
Last Supper ritual 2, 187, 202
Latour, Bruno 131, 160
Lebendige Vorzeit (Living Past) exhibition (Berlin, 1937) 69
Lemley, Mark 217
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 113; Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry 217
Lestrade, Jean-Xavier de: The Staircase 50 Levi-Strauss, Claude: Tristes Tropiques 158 lieux de memoire concept 11, 139
Life, Once More project 16
Light, Duncan 44
liminal states 203
litigation, reenactments used in 61-62, 215-216 A Little Bit of History Repeated exhibition
(Kunstwerke Berlin, 2000-2001) 112 live action role-play (LARP) 3, 72, 170, 178,
206, 208
living history: definition and overview 120-124; education and personal development, serving 71, 181; and evolution of reenactment 3; and experimental archaeology 67, 70; historical digital games compared to 87; and modes of being and doing 23; performative approach of 73; scholarly categorizations of 72; see also open-air museums
Living in the Past (documentary series) 188 Locard, Edmond 61
Locke, John 4-5, 34, 40-41 Longinus 211; On the Sublime 210 Longo, Robert 112
Lord of the Rings (novels) 207 Lowenthal, David 142, 143-144 Lucretius 40, 42 ludology 179-181 Lunacharsky, Anatoly 153 Lnttiken, Sven 7, 112; Life, Once More: Forms of
Reenactment in Contemporary Art 112 Lyotard, Francois 151
Maccabees 126
Macdonald, Sharon 141 Magellan, F.
42 Magelssen, Scott 8 “magic moments” 27 see “period rush” Makahiki festival (Hawai'i) 35 Making History (digital game) 84 male-dominated ideals 25, 85, 87 Malthus, Thomas Robert 4, 37, 38; An Essay onthe Principle of Population as it affects the Future
Improvement of Society 35 Mama, Alto 91 Manzella, Christina 19 maritime reenactments 42-43 Marker, Chris: The Last Bolshevik 135 marketplace 18 Marsden, Stuart 32 martyrdom 125-129; see also suffering Marx, Karl 12, 187 material culture 30, 63, 101-102, 130-132; see also
objects material witnesses 82-83 McCahon, Colin 3 McCalman, Iain 3, 109 Mecca 97-98 mediality 16, 44-45, 112, 133-137 mediation 5, 16-18 medieval hoods 161-162 medieval reenactments 25, 74, 76, 100 memory: as archive 14, 149; in artistic reenactment
17; collective 17, 44, 138-140, 219; and commemoration 11, 138-141; communal 119; as context dependent 61; and contextualizing history 112; cultural 139-140; Errol Morris on 50; Freud on 52; Hobbes on 40; of the Holocaust 47, 148-149, 176; mediation of 154, 200-201; politics of 65; prosthetic 160; and trauma 220 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 30-31 Merrington, Peter 165 metalepsis 24 metaphor 2 miles Christi figure 126
Milgram, Stanley 199-200, 217
mimesis 1-2, 20, 29, 61, 142-146, 198 mimicry 14
Miner's Strike (Orgreave, South Yorkshire)
(1984-1985) 50-51, 134, 152, 154-155 Miniaturk and Vialand parks (Istanbul) 144 Mink, Louis 151
Mise-en-scene 23, 31,59, 185
Mitchell, William John Thomas 198, 199
mitzvah and memorialization 147-150
mobile museums 184-185 modernity 113, 115, 126-127, 167 Mohammad (prophet) 98 Molyneux, William 40
Mongolian culture 204 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 41 monuments and muniments 102
More, Thomas : Utopia 43
Morley, Carol: Dreams of a Life 50, 52
Morris, Errol: Standard Operating Procedure 50;
The Thin Blue Line 49, 50
Morris, William 101-102
Muhteξem Yuzyil (Glorious Century) television show 144
Mullen, Gary A. 215
Munoz, Jose Esteban 93 museums: art performance reenactments 18;
historical digital games compared to exhibitions at 87; and mimetic credibility 20; and museum pedagogues 70-71; participatory programming at 8, 193; see also individual museums
Museums 2.0 193
music and sound 3, 8, 13, 60; see also Historically Informed Performance
Myall Creek massacre and memorial (Australia) 117 “my time-your time” technique 171
Nagel, Thomas 197
Nakba Day protest (Beitunia, 2014) 82
Namibia, colonial reenactments in 26 Napoleonic Wars 25 narratives: alternative 17; and “dark” events 45;
definition and overview 151-155; embodied by reenactors 55; and living history performers 121; nationalist 85; and nostalgia 158; and play 85 Nasielsk (Poland) 149
National Socialists (in 1930s Germany) 69 nature, state of 34-35
Natur und Liebe (silent film) 68
naumachia 25
Nawara, Nadeem 82 “negative evidence” concept 83
Nelles, H.V 165
Nelson, Lord 60 Neo-Platonists 34
Network of Experimental Archaeology in Europe (EXARC) 70, 71
Neville, Henry: The Isle of Pines 43 New Salem Historic Site 20—21
New Zealand: colonial reenactments in 26; Land wars (1840s-1860s) 118
Nichols, Bill 49
Nielsen, Carsten Tage 76 Nkanga, Otobong: Baggage reenactment 19 non-binary and trans* persons 91,91
Nora, Pierre 11, 139
Nordic LARP 208-209 Normandy (France) 102-103
Norsk Folkemuseum (Norway) 120 nostalgia 156-159
Ntuli, Aimee Mica: Cheers to Sarajevo 220-221,221 objectivity 1,7, 9, 10, 14
objects and object authenticity 20, 132, 160, 186 Ogden, Charles K. 104
Olick, Jeffrey K. 140 open-air museums 68-70, 77, 120, 170, 206;
see also experimental archaeology; living history Oppenheimer, Joshua: The Act of Killing 94-96 “optical unconscious” 134 Orwell, George: 1984 39 Otto, Ulf 5, 7
Ottoman Empire 144 Outback House (television show) 63-64
Owen, Wilfrid 41 ownership, sense of 27
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 57, 149 Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment 113 Oxford Pageant of Victory 164, 167
Paardekooper, Roland 70 Paddock Wood reenactment (Kent) 47
Paegelow, Dale 80
Pageant and Masque (St. Louis, Missouri) 165, 166 pageantry 8, 72 paidia and ludus 179-181
PancasilaYouth Movement 94 panopticon 216-217
Panorama 1453 museum (Istanbul) 144-146, 145 Pariser, Eli 9
Paris World Exhibition (1867) 67 Parker, Louis N.: The Pageant of Sherbourne 163 Parkerian pageants 163, 167 “participatory politics” 18 passion plays of the Middle Ages 72
Passover ritual 187 pastness concept 131-132 Patchett, Merle 12-13 Paterson Strike Pageant (NewYork) 166 patriotism 25, 26, 159, 164, 165 Pattrn (multimedia platform) 79 Peirce, Charles Sanders 198 Pennant, Thomas 102 performance and performativity: archives as 13, 13;
and contextualizing history 112; critical power of artistic 19; definitions and overview 169-172; and digital games 85; and embodiment 30, 113-114; “evidentiary crisis” of 18; and gender 90, 93; “liveness” of 113; and performance studies 7, 13-14; as research 33; skillful 32-33; see also Historically Informed Performance “performative documentation” (or “embodied documentation”) 18 “period ear” concept 109 “period rush” (or “magic moments”) 23, 27, 29,
63, 76, 181; see also sublime persecution texts 128 Peterson, Michael 50 Petrarch 143-144 Phelan, Peggy 112, 113 Philosophical Transactions journal 40 philosophy of history 60, 135-136, 147 photographs 45, 83 physical environments 14, 31, 47, 62 Pickering, Paul 3, 5, 109 picketing (punishment) 39 Piggott, Stuart 102 pilgrimages 3, 46, 118, 125, 173-177; see also hajj pilgrimage
Plato 142, 195, 198, 210; The Republic 4, 211 Platonism 4-5; see also Neo-Platonists play 3, 85, 121, 178-182; see also games and gaming; role-play
Plimoth Plantation (Massachusetts) 73, 120, 121, 171, 183
plots and stories 151-152, 155 political bias 29 Pope, Alexander 210 postcolonialism 17, 116 post-conflict resolution 44 Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas 104-105 power and pilgrimages 174, 176 Prague, synagogues in 148 preenactment (or theater therapy) 152-153 presence 15, 37-38, 41-42, 130 presentness 50, 51 primary qualities of the world (theory) 41 “proper imitator” concept 143-144 prosthetic witnessing 47 psychological gesture technique 171 Pufendorf, Samuel von 34
Quintus: Posthomerica 213
Rabinowitz, Paula 50
race and racialization 26, 65, 90, 157, 192; see also
African Americans; indigeneity
Rajk, Laslo xxii, 21—22 Ram Rath Yatra rally (India, 1990) 176 Ranciere, Jacques: Le Spectateur Emancipe 18, 19 ranz-des-vaches (Swiss folk song) 157 Rao, Vyjayanthi 14 Rasmussen, M. 71, 72 realism 37, 45, 59, 64, 85-86, 195-197 “reality effect” 86, 192 reality television see historical reality television reconciliation 117, 118, 222 Reed, Jack 166 Reenactment History series 111-112 reenactments: access to history, facilitating 63;
artistic approach of 141; and closure 49; dance 113; and distance 200; and distance, creation and erasure of 200; as educational 183, 188; as forced repetition 128; future challenges in study of 8-10; hypothetical 52; interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to 2-6; internal 40-41; materials accessed in developing 72; in military academies (18th century) 72; overview of 1-2; politicization of 185; practices of 187190; queering of 90-93, 91; and reenactment studies 6-8; as rethinking past 135-136; as self-referential performativity 84; sites of 21, 44; study of 111-114; transformative power of 17; “two ‘reals”' of 109; see also acting and actors Refugee Tales Walk (UK) 176 Regency period 31,32, 32-33 “Regimentet” reenactment group 77 religious importance of reenactment 1-3; see also
Christian traditions; Islamic traditions; Jewish traditions
religious sites as heritage sites 173 Renaissance per iod 143-144 repertoire (in performance) 14, 171 repetition 190, 222 representation 32-33, 198-201 “Resistance 500” task force 222 “restored behaviour” 122, 203 resurrectionism 121 Rethinking History journal 111 “reverse architecture” 217 Reynolds, Daniel P.: Postcards from Auschwitz 45 Reynolds, Peter 71 Richardson, Samuel 197 Ricreur, Paul 136, 142 rituals 2, 140, 182, 187, 202-205; see also hajj pilgrimage
Rivers, William Halse Rivers 41 Roberts, Les 14
Robertson, William : History of America 35 Rogers, Samuel 157 Rokem, Freddie 122 role-play 206-209
Roman Catholics 2
Roman-Germanic Central Museum (Germany) 67
Roman reenactments 72 Romantic age 37
Roosevelt, Franklin 35 Rosaldo, Renato 158
Roth, Philip: The Plot Against America 35 Rouch, Jean: Les MaHtres Fous 135 Rouen (France) 102, 104
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 35, 157 Rushton, Steve 17, 153, 154, 200-201
Rwanda: dark tourism in 45; reconciliation plays in 223; genocide in 45
Saalburg Fort (Germany) 72
Saint Benedict 128
Saint Cecilia 127
Saint Demetrius 126 Saint George 126, 126
Saint Sebastian 127 Samuel, Raphael 74, 77-78, 110, 121 Sasse, Sylvia 153
Sassoon, Siegfried 41 satellite imaging 39 Saussure, Ferdinand de 198 Saxton, William 29
Sa'y ritual 98 Scandinavia: experimental archaeology in 67-68;
open-air museums in 69 Schaerf, Eran 112 Schechner, Richard 170, 171, 203 Scheer, Monique 53-54 Schiller, Friedrich 178 Schindler, Bill 71, 72 Schlunke, Katrina 117 Schmidt, Robert Rudolf 68 Schmidt, Theron 92-93 Schneider, Rebecca 7, 27, 91,112-114, 161,194 Schroeder, Jonathan D. S. 5-6 Schwarz, Anja 5, 7-8, 108 scientific method 67, 83, 191 Scott, Joan W. 7-8, 65
Scott, Walter : The Heart of Midlothian 104 scripted battles 28-29 second-person interpretation 122, 207 secularization 125-126
Sehested, Frederik: “Stone Age” house (Odense area, Denmark) 67-68
the senses 63; sensation, sensory 22, 34, 38, 40-41, 53, 63, 88, 221
Settler and Creole Reenactment 111-112 sex and sexuality 89, 90, 172; see also gender Sfard, Michael 79
Shakespeare, William: King John 37 Shalson, Lara 18
Sherman, Bernard 108
Siberian culture 204
Siege of Sarajevo (1990s) 86 Simpson, Edward (or Flint Jack) 68 site-specificity 51
Skansen open-air museum (Sweden) 120 slave auction reenactments 45, 185, 222 slavery in the Americas 157, 166
Smith, Adam 37, 96
Smith, Allison: The Muster reenactment 193—194 Smith, Laurajane 193
Smythson, Robert and John 100 Sniper Elite (digital game) 84
Snow, Stephen Eddy 170, 171
Sobchack,Vivian 31
Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) 123, 170, 208
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 101-102
Socrates 125
SomethingWild (film) 158
Sontag, Susan 113; Regarding the Pain of Others 45
Sooke, Alistair 32
Sophists 210
South Africa: colonial reenactments in 26; historical pageants in 165
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94
Soviet Union: October Revolution 16, 26, 152-153
speech act theory 90; see also Austin, J. L. Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene 100 Sprague, Joey 89
Sprat, Thomas: History of the Royal Society 5 Srebrena krv (Silver Blood) performance 219 Stach, Sabine: Reenactment Case Studies: Global
Perspectives on Experiential History 7 stadial theory 35, 38 staging 23
Staley, David 215
Stanislavski, Constantin 171 state-sponsored violence 39, 79-80
St. Dunstan's Pageant of Peace 167
Steedman, Christina: Dust 12
Stein, Howard 223
Sterne, Laurence 197
Stewart, Kathleen 157
Stewart, Susan 156-158
stitch-Nazis 8, 58, 76; see also “thread counters” Stone Age 72, 184
storage memory 139
Strasberg, Lee 171 strategy games 84, 88
Strauss, Mitchell D. 74—77
Stukeley, William 102 stumbler's body 47 sublime 210-212; see also “period rush” suffering 126, 213-218; see also martyrdom Sullivan, Catherine 112
supplementation technique 104 Sweet, Rosemary 102, 104
Switzerland: experimental archaeology in 67; lake dwellings in 72
symbols and signs 2-3, 5, 198
“syncopated time” 113 synesthesia 40
tableau vivant genre 163
Tahiti, social structure in 35
Taruskin, Richard: Text and Act 108
Taussig, Michael: Mimesis and Alterity 143 tawaf ritual 97-99
Taylor, Diana 14, 119, 171; The Archive and the Repertoire 113
Taylor, Sunaura 31
technological advancements 49, 215; see also digital information and technology
television reenactments 23, 39, 63, 171; see also individual shows
Temple Mount (al-Haram al-Sarif) ( Jerusalem) 174-175, 175
temporality 6, 14, 117
Tertullian 128 thanatourism 45-46
Thatcher, Margaret 154 theater 72, 92-93, 169, 206, 207
Theatre-Style Larp (term) 209 theatrical archives 13
theatricality of historical knowledge 7 third-person interpretation 122
This War of Mine (digital game) 86
Thompson, Edward Palmer 135
Thompson, Jenny 26; Wargames 75-77 “thread counters” 58; see also garbsnarkers;
stitch-Nazis
Tierra del Fuego, social structure in 35
Tilden, Freeman 191
Time magazine 157
Toby (uncle of R. Hodge) 196
Toffler, Alvin 191
Tomann, Juliane: Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History 7
Tonga, sacrificial rituals in 35
Total War (digital game) 84
Tower of London 207
trauma 41, 114, 219-223
The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman 42 tribal social structures 35 trompe l'oeil paintings 142
Trotsky, Leon: History of the Russian Revolution 135
Trump, Donald 35, 40
truth: in artistic reenactment 17; authority over historical 15; and British interwar pageants 167; and forensic architecture 6; and martyrs 129; and political power 40; and reenactment studies 7, 10; and suffering 215, 217-218; and “truthiness” 23
Tubingen Institute of Prehistory 68
Turkey: cultural politics in 144; educational reenactments in 183; see also Ottoman Empire
Turkle, Sherry 161
Turner, Edith 174
Turner, Mark 193
Turner,Victor 174, 203
Turner Prize 39, 43, 83
Tyson, Amy M. 121
UNESCO's World Heritage program 101
United Kingdom (UK): Ancient Monuments Act (England, 1882) 101—102; authentic materials, market for 161; educational reenactments in 183; historical pageantry in 163—167; improvisational theater in 206
United States (US): animated reenactments in court 62; authentic materials, market for 161; educational reenactments in 183; Emancipation Proclamation 165—166; first-person interpretation in 207—208; historical pageants in 165; improvisational theater in 206
Unteruhldingen (open-air museum) 68, 72 Uricchio, William 180
US National Parks Service 186, 191
Uthco, T. R.: The Eternal Frame 51,201
Vancouver, G. 42
Van der Pol, Bik 112 van Gennep, Arnold 203 van Gogh,Vincent 2
Vansina, Jan 139
Verwoert, Jan 17
Victoria (Queen) 207
Victorian age 64, 65, 66
Viking period 25, 184, 184
Viking ship replica 68
Vincent, Joyce 52 violent images 45
Virchowian cultural anthropology 68
Virgil: Aeneid 95, 213-214, 217
virtual reality (VR) 3-4, 10, 58-59, 86, 215-217 visitor management 44
Visser, Barbara 112
Volkerschauen (“ethnographic shows”) 115
Volokh, Eugene 217 von Ranke, Leopold 57
Vorlauf, Dirk 70
Walls, Peter 109
Walpole, Horace: “An Account of the Giants lately discovered” 42; Strawberry Hill 102
wampum belt tradition 118 wardrobes 63-64, 65, 74-76, 97, 110, 121, 172 “wargasm” 27, 196, 212 war psychoses 41
Waterson, Roxana 119
Watkins, Alex 19
Watkins, Peter: La Commune 123 webcams 21
Weizman, Eyal 79, 82; “Forensis” exhibition
(2014) 83
Welles, Orson: Citizen Kane 159
Wenzel, Jennifer 158
Wenzel Geissler, P. 12
Werktreue 107
White, Hayden 142, 151-152
White, John 171 white pride sentiment 193 Wieder und wider: Performance Appropriated (Vienna,
2006) 113
Wild West shows 26
Williams, Raymond 7-8, 65; Keywords 57, 195 William the Conqueror 102
Willis, Thomas 42
Wilson, Nick 106, 107
witnessing see eyewitness observation women: in American Civil War reenactments 186,
192-193; bodies of 64, 65, 66; and queering of reenactments 91; as writers 36; see also gender issues World Exhibition (Chicago, 1893) 68 World of Warcraft (digital game) 88
World War I 25, 200
World War II 25, 46-47, 74-76, 77, 84, 185; see also
Holocaust
Yearbook of Experimental Archaeology 70
Yesh-Gvul (human rights group) 81
Yozgaton, Halit 82
Yugoslavia, former 219
Zizek, Slavoj 158
Zmijewski, Artur: 80064 17
“zoo humans” 115
Zusman, Karen: Hasidim Post Sukkah at Coney
Island 148