TY - JOUR
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Ontology
KW - Indigeneity
KW - Bolivia
KW - Alternative epistemologies
KW - Cacophonous relations
KW - Cradle status
AU - Michelle Bigenho
AU - Henry Stobart
AB - A “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural rights explanations. To help account for specific local uptakes of heritage assemblages and for differences between the levels of heritage dispute, however, this article suggests also considering a “heritage otherwise” perspective. Rather than attributing local conflicts over heritage “cradle” declarations entirely to the impact of neoliberalism and UNESCO’s processes, this article explores them in terms of the dynamics of origin politics and a preference for cacophonous modes of musical performance. Such dynamics and “cacophonous relations,” it is argued, are more about reproducing worlds than parceling them into new forms of property.
BT - Anthropological Quarterly
DO - 10.1353/anq.2018.0067
LA - English
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Institute for Ethnographic Research
N2 - A “fever” of heritage registration (patrimonialización) is raging at multiple levels of Bolivian society. Under the pro-indigenous government of Evo Morales, many laws have moved specific cultural expressions into legal framings as intangible cultural heritage. In part, this booming interest in heritage may be related to desires to capitalize on cultures, to support cultural rights claims, and/or some combination of these economic and cultural rights explanations. To help account for specific local uptakes of heritage assemblages and for differences between the levels of heritage dispute, however, this article suggests also considering a “heritage otherwise” perspective. Rather than attributing local conflicts over heritage “cradle” declarations entirely to the impact of neoliberalism and UNESCO’s processes, this article explores them in terms of the dynamics of origin politics and a preference for cacophonous modes of musical performance. Such dynamics and “cacophonous relations,” it is argued, are more about reproducing worlds than parceling them into new forms of property.
PY - 2018
SP - 1329
EP - 1363
T2 - Anthropological Quarterly
TI - Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062811991&doi=10.1353%2fanq.2018.0067&partnerID=40&md5=9ff065daf8d4362d97a4c2caa885ce4c
VL - 91
SN - 00035491 (ISSN)
ER -