Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 November 29

= November 29 =

Peer Reviewed Jounal With a Non-Specialist Claim - How to Best Assess the Veracity?
Hi. I was reading "Aesthetics and Ephemerality: Observing and Preserving the Luxury Brand" (2009) with the intention of hopefully citing it in Ephemerality. And I did come across something useful, the quote reads: "Although present in all cultures and times, a philosophy of the ephemeral is perhaps best enunciated in the Japanese notion of wabi-sabi, a world-view that is centred on transience". In isolation, this is really useful for an overview on ephemerality and humanity, however, context is perhaps a hindrance.

This article was published California Management Review; the cited authors are either professors of management or marketing. They're not anthropologists, whose prerogative I'd expect the aforementioned quote to be – or an historian, or cultural scholar or sociologist. So, with that all being said, is this claim made by them - or at least propagated - reliable? Thanks. DMT Biscuit (talk) 18:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)


 * You might note that the poisoned heart of a manager of marketing is concerned with other than the ephemeral, and they are citing . fiveby(zero) 18:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)