Introduction

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Notes

1. Cf, for example, Ishimori (1995).

2. Selwyn (1996, pp. 6–8) argued that MacCannell used the term to apply both to the search for the ‘authentically social’, in Durkheimian and Turnerian senses, and also, in a Popperian sense, to that which is ‘objectively true’ (in the sense that a museum curator might ascribe period ‘authenticity’ to a material object on the basis of the latest scientific investigation), following which Wang (1999) distinguished between ‘existential’ and ‘objective’ authenticity.