02491nas a2200313   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001800043653001100061653001000072653004500082653001700127653001300144653001600157653001900173653002000192653001300212653002400225653002400249653001100273653002300284100001600307245012600323856011800449300001100567490000600578520157300584022002002157       2014                            d10aElite culture10aEurope10aGames10aLists of the 2003 Convention (ICH\_1331)10aMasterpieces10apainting10aPeter Burke10aPieter Bruegel10aPopular culture10aProverbs10aRepresentative List10aTacit understanding10aUNESCO10aUnwritten criteria1 aMarc Jacobs00aBruegel and Burke were here! Examining the criteria implicit in the UNESCO paradigm of safeguarding ICH: the first decade  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84906811667&partnerID=40&md5=0ef0e44b45b468b67c01bf06c2dc3d63  a99-1180 v93 aSeveral masterpieces by the 16th century painter, Pieter Bruegel from the Low Countries, can function as eyeopeners to understand how  popular culture  is mediated or how successful multi-media inventories can be for cultural repertoires. These paintings were also used in Peter Burke s Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. In order to fully understand the recent developments before and since the 2003 UNESCO Convention, it is necessary to situate these in a long term perspective, and Burke s book remains a relevant classic. This exercise helps us to recognise a number of implicit or invisible criteria for the lists of the Convention - like the  no-electricity  rule. For the UNESCO lists, both popular and court/elite forms of culture from outside Europe seem to qualify, but for Europe, only expressions of popular culture are listed; the  elite culture  tacitly falls outside the scope, up to now. Waiting for a wikipedia-like formula with peer review to facilitate a really representative list, the New Delhi consensus expressed in the first paragraphs of the operational directives holds up to now: easy criteria, but a hair-splitting treatment of the forms and bottle necks and dams in the pipelines of processing the files, in order to slow down the inflation effect that would follow mass inscription. The constructivist nature of the definition of intangible cultural heritage in Article 2 of the 2003 Convention, and the possibility of using the lists - and registration system - to create eye-openers and precedents allows for innovation and change.  a19753586 (ISSN)