@article{5219,
  keywords = {Cities (ICH\_1358), Insufficient remuneration (ICH\_1245), Mali (ML), Touristification (ICH\_1122)},
  author = {Cristiana Panella},
  title = {Bamako s Woodcarvers as Pariahs of Cultural Heritage: Between Marginalization and State Representation},
  abstract = {In this article, I propose to view the acts of production behind tourist art as indicators of adaptation strategies paramount to innovation and cultural reprocessing. From this perspective, I examine the principle of materiality associated with UNESCO selection criteria, including a spatial-temporal conception that rejects the contemporaneity between objects and their acts of production. The Malian state s “heritage foundation” excludes tourist art carvers on the basis of their economic survival strategies and marks of identity. In an opposite perspective, the principle of corporality includes a social perspective on cultural heritage in which the human body is viewed as a receptacle of the capital of “social relations of work,” conveying a social aesthetic in which iconographic innovation is the outcome of economic precariousness and hierarchical relations.},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Africa Today},
  volume = {58},
  number = {3},
  pages = {41-56},
  month = {mar},
  issn = {00019887},
  url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.58.3.41},
  language = {English},
}