01197nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002300043245007400066300001200140490000700152520089000159022001401049                                       d1 aCharlotte D Evelyn00aKhoomii, Chooryn Duu, and Dissonant Heritage in Inner Mongolia, China  a139-1690 v523 aThis article sheds light on the logics that informed China s 2009 successful application and nomination of khoomii as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of China. It explores how bureaucrats charged with overseeing cultural heritage applications, while expertly aware of the requirements to satisfy the terms of the UNESCO Convention, often unknowingly distance and disenfranchise local knowledge in the process. I argue that just such a phenomenon occurred in Inner Mongolia, in which bureaucrats created a new musical taxonomy to justify the existence of and need for safeguarding of khoomii in China. Offering a close investigation into the UNESCO application, this article spotlights the practice of chooryn duu (tsooryn duu, chogur-un dagu) and the logic through which it became strategically subsumed within and conflated with khoomii for the purposes of the UNESCO application.  a0044-9202