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The difficult politicization of the ethnological heritageEthnology was, in the early 1980s, endowed with an institution in the state establishment for managing France’s national heritage and “patrimony”. The author’s professional experiences serve as the basis for comments on the benefits of this meeting between science and administration and on the specific place of government actions in favor of a category of the national heritage characterized by the immateriality of its objects. This specificity has placed this discipline’s representatives in a position that breaks with classical procedures for managing historical monuments and museums. This position takes a “reflexive turn” sanctioning research-action based on a double reversal of perspectives: turn any ethnological or other national heritage into the subject matter for an ethnology of activities in relation to this heritage; and shift expertise toward the center of national heritage policies so as to make ethnologists’ documentary expertise into a participatory one. |
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