TY - JOUR
KW - Lists of the 2003 Convention (ICH\_1331)
AU - Valdimar Hafstein
AB - Reading 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.
DO - 10.2979/jfolkrese.52.2-3.281
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Indiana University Section: Journal of Folklore Research
N2 - Reading 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.
SP - 281
EP - 298
TI - Intangible Heritage as Diagnosis, Safeguarding as Treatment
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938886000&doi=10.2979%2fjfolkrese.52.2-3.281&partnerID=40&md5=7a8d9c79ee77bb6f9d03c92d8a4cafc0
VL - 52
SN - 07377037 (ISSN)
ER -