01834nas a2200253 4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002400044653001300068653001600081653001200097653003100109653002600140653001800166100002100184700001800205245005400223856014600277300001400423490000700437520111600444022002001560 2018 d10aintangible heritage10aOntology10aIndigeneity10aBolivia10aAlternative epistemologies10aCacophonous relations10aCradle status1 aMichelle Bigenho1 aHenry Stobart00aGrasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062811991&doi=10.1353%2fanq.2018.0067&partnerID=40&md5=9ff065daf8d4362d97a4c2caa885ce4c a1329-13630 v913 aA “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural rights explanations. To help account for specific local uptakes of heritage assemblages and for differences between the levels of heritage dispute, however, this article suggests also considering a “heritage otherwise” perspective. Rather than attributing local conflicts over heritage “cradle” declarations entirely to the impact of neoliberalism and UNESCO’s processes, this article explores them in terms of the dynamics of origin politics and a preference for cacophonous modes of musical performance. Such dynamics and “cacophonous relations,” it is argued, are more about reproducing worlds than parceling them into new forms of property. a00035491 (ISSN)