01121nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653004800043100001800091245008200109856015300191300001200344490000700356520058000363022002000943                                       d10aOral traditions and expressions (ICH\_1227)1 aDorothy Noyes00aFrom cultural forms to policy objects: : Comparison in scholarship and policy  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938854196&doi=10.2979%2fjfolkrese.52.2-3.299&partnerID=40&md5=8996264c6b2fa0d14ec85a77f07e1d3e  a299-3130 v523 aThe category of intangible cultural heritage was constituted through recurrent and cumulative acts of comparison referring ultimately back to the representative anecdote of oral tradition, Homeric epic. In turn, once created, the category hailed diverse phenomena into itself, which were rendered thereby into comparable policy objects, the “elements of ICH.” This commentary reviews the analytical contexts invoked in the comparative work of this special issue: liberal modernity, the state, international norms, and folklorists’ old purview, face-to-face interaction.  a07377037 (ISSN)