01644nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002000044653001300064653002300077653001800100653001100118100001700129245011500146856015600261300001000417490000700427520097200434022002001406       2018                            d10aCommodification10aheritage10aHistorical Centres10aNeoliberalism10aUNESCO1 aJohn Collins00aCulture, content, and the enclosure of human being: UNESCO’s “intangible” heritage in the new millennium  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048548083&doi=10.1590%2fS0103-49792018000100002&partnerID=40&md5=9d59b2e4ab0c60cac8fb46eb6ab9b242  a25-380 v313 aCultural heritage, or patrimony, is a technology that transforms people’s everyday habits, or culture, into forms of property. Thus in neoliberalism’s wake, patrimony has been configured as a source of value essential to development schemes that stress knowledge economies. In this review and extension of anthropological approaches to patrimony, I argue that a vacillation between alienable and inalienable cultural properties constructed around quotidian habits, or what has been construed as some sort of human essence supervised by UNESCO, has come to rest today on a hybrid form of mining and enclosure of human qualities. I follow the logic of a rampant commodification under neoliberalism and consider how enclosure may be extended conceptually from analyses of land to the marketing of a peoplehood. My goal in doing so is to suggest avenues for future research on the global production of value and its relationship to struggles for social justice today.  a01034979 (ISSN)