01821nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653003100043653001200074653002600086653001800112653001600130653002400146653001300170100002100183700001800204245005400222856014600276300001400422490000700436520111600443022002001559                                       d10aAlternative epistemologies10aBolivia10aCacophonous relations10aCradle status10aIndigeneity10aintangible heritage10aOntology1 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)