Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewValdimar Hafstein [is the] author of some of the most mordant and witty critical analysis of intangible heritage protection.
-- From "UNESCO and the Strange Career of Multiculturalism," published in the
Los Angeles Review of BooksWhile a prior knowledge of international heritage policy can help, students, scholars, and professionals in anthropology, folklore, and allied fields and disciplines – those interested in heritage theory and practice, and those out on the frontlines of "ICH" work – should read this book.
* Cultural Analysis *
The book is a useful tool for the study of critical heritage studies as well as for the expansion of our knowledge about the uses and resignifications linked to the concept of intangible heritage.
* Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *
Table of ContentsPrelude: Confessions of a Folklorist
1. Making Heritage: Introduction
2. Making Threats: The Condor's Flight
3. Making Lists: The Dance Band in the Hospital
4. Making Communities: Protection as Dispossession
5. Making Festivals: Folklorisation Revisited
Postlude: Intangible Heritage as Diagnosis, Safeguarding as Treatment
Conclusion: If Intangible Heritage is the Solution, What is the Problem?
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
