TY - JOUR KW - France KW - Gastronomy KW - intangible heritage KW - Law KW - sensory heritage AU - R.F. Bendix AB - The expansion from material heritage - pleasing sight and to a lesser extent touch (for very often material heritage may be touched only within limits) - to the realm of the intangible indicates an increase in the reflexive consideration of the full sensorium. With the ratification of the 2003 Intangible Heritage Convention, we have turned to select for heritage status cultural practices and perceptions entailing the body and the senses more fully: Music and dance, as well as craft traditions exemplifying the knowledge in hands and the skill of touch.The new French sensory heritage law could be a significant marker in the changing dynamic of valorizing selected aspects of culture. DO - 10.3986/Traditio2021500104 M1 - 1 N1 - Publisher: ZRC SAZU, Zalozba ZRC N2 - The expansion from material heritage - pleasing sight and to a lesser extent touch (for very often material heritage may be touched only within limits) - to the realm of the intangible indicates an increase in the reflexive consideration of the full sensorium. With the ratification of the 2003 Intangible Heritage Convention, we have turned to select for heritage status cultural practices and perceptions entailing the body and the senses more fully: Music and dance, as well as craft traditions exemplifying the knowledge in hands and the skill of touch.The new French sensory heritage law could be a significant marker in the changing dynamic of valorizing selected aspects of culture. SP - 43 EP - 51 TI - Life Itself: An Essay on the Sensory and the (Potential) End of Heritage Making UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85124477520&doi=10.3986%2fTraditio2021500104&partnerID=40&md5=e8884387bed79b36f8434de2298e809b VL - 50 SN - 03520447 (ISSN) ER -