01798nas a2200205   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001800043653003300061653001600094653001600110653001300126100001400139245013800153856014600291300001100437490000700448520111700455022002001572                                       d10aFood heritage10aIntangible cultural heritage10aNationalism10aNaturalness10aPastness1 aH. Makela00aDigesting the Finnish nature and past: food, pastness, and the naturalness of the national in the Wiki-inventory for living heritage.  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122860017&doi=10.2478%2fjef-2021-0019&partnerID=40&md5=e15c54c04914360e7e1917f90d0592e4  a89-1110 v153 aThis article examines the inventorying of Finnish intangible cultural heritage with regard to UNESCO s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. I analyse the participatory Wiki-inventory for Living Heritage, concentrating on entries that discuss food and foodways to study how food, materiality, and the national intertwine with practices of producing intangible cultural heritage. The article s theoretical background draws from the fields of banal nationalism and critical heritage studies. Food is eminently important in narratives of Finnishness: by using the concepts of naturalness and pastness, I show how Finnish food becomes interpreted as  authentic  Finnish heritage. The concepts illuminate the complex processes in which the materiality of food, the Finnish terroir and landscape, narratives of the past, and the consumer who prepares, eats, and digests the heritagised food are tied to each other. These processes reinforce the banality of Finnishness, although the practices of inventorying paradoxically strive for the ideal of cultural diversity that UNESCO promotes.  a17366518 (ISSN)