01935nas a2200265   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001200044653001100056653001600067653004500083653004800128653001000176653005900186653002100245653002400266100001700290245010400307856015300411300001200564490000700576520106600583022002001649       2012                            d10aBedouin10aJordan10aJordan (JO)10aLists of the 2003 Convention (ICH\_1331)10aOral traditions and expressions (ICH\_1227)10aPetra10aSDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (ICH\_1389)10aheritage process10aintangible heritage1 aMikkel Bille00aAssembling heritage: investigating the UNESCO proclamation of Bedouin intangible heritage in Jordan  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84858191632&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2011.599853&partnerID=40&md5=6b8741faac88b966f34f6013d82b31b0  a107-1230 v183 aThis paper examines the process of incorporating the Bedouin of Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan on UNESCOs list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2005. The author focuses on the Bedouin tribes around Petra, who were resettled in villages when UNESCO proclaimed the area part of the tangible heritage of humanity in 1985. Heritage is approached as a process of assembling that emerges from the interactions of social entities operating on a smaller scale. By focusing on these entities various discourses about Bedouin heritage that are included in the reports and applications to UNESCO, it is argued that through the process of proclaiming intangible heritage, cultural categories are formulated so as to fit into contemporary imaginations, longings and settlement policies. Investigating the process of heritage inscription reveals the multiple, and at times contradictory, discourses that undergird the production of particular images of Bedouin culture through heritage institutions that interlock, rather than harmonise, them.  a13527258 (ISSN)