01534nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653004500043100002200088245006400110856015300174300001200327490000700339520101000346022002001356                                       d10aLists of the 2003 Convention (ICH\_1331)1 aValdimar Hafstein00aIntangible Heritage as Diagnosis, Safeguarding as Treatment  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938886000&doi=10.2979%2fjfolkrese.52.2-3.281&partnerID=40&md5=7a8d9c79ee77bb6f9d03c92d8a4cafc0  a281-2980 v523 aReading across the six essays in this special issue on “UNESCO on the ground,” this commentary argues for an understanding of intangible heritage as a diagnosis for a cultural condition that is increasingly common in industrial and postindustrial societies under circumstances of economic, political, technological, and demographic change—for which the shorthand is globalization. Safeguarding emerges, then, as a form of treatment, administered by experts, combining new social institutions (councils, committees, commissions, networks, foundations, etc.) with certain expressive genres (lists, festivals, workshops, competitions, prizes, documentaries, promotional materials, etc.). The former administer the latter in practices that are jointly termed safeguarding. If intangible heritage is a diagnosis and safeguarding is the treatment, however, it is not without side effects. Some of the case studies in this issue give warning that the side effects may sometimes be worse than the condition.  a07377037 (ISSN)