TY - JOUR
KW - Cities (ICH\_1358)
KW - Insufficient remuneration (ICH\_1245)
KW - Mali (ML)
KW - Touristification (ICH\_1122)
AU - Cristiana Panella
AB - In this article, I propose to view the acts of production behind tourist art as indicators of adaptation strategies paramount to innovation and cultural reprocessing. From this perspective, I examine the principle of materiality associated with UNESCO selection criteria, including a spatial-temporal conception that rejects the contemporaneity between objects and their acts of production. The Malian state s “heritage foundation” excludes tourist art carvers on the basis of their economic survival strategies and marks of identity. In an opposite perspective, the principle of corporality includes a social perspective on cultural heritage in which the human body is viewed as a receptacle of the capital of “social relations of work,” conveying a social aesthetic in which iconographic innovation is the outcome of economic precariousness and hierarchical relations.
BT - Africa Today
DA - mar
LA - English
M1 - 3
N2 - In this article, I propose to view the acts of production behind tourist art as indicators of adaptation strategies paramount to innovation and cultural reprocessing. From this perspective, I examine the principle of materiality associated with UNESCO selection criteria, including a spatial-temporal conception that rejects the contemporaneity between objects and their acts of production. The Malian state s “heritage foundation” excludes tourist art carvers on the basis of their economic survival strategies and marks of identity. In an opposite perspective, the principle of corporality includes a social perspective on cultural heritage in which the human body is viewed as a receptacle of the capital of “social relations of work,” conveying a social aesthetic in which iconographic innovation is the outcome of economic precariousness and hierarchical relations.
PY - 2012
SP - 41
EP - 56
T2 - Africa Today
TI - Bamako s Woodcarvers as Pariahs of Cultural Heritage: Between Marginalization and State Representation
UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/africatoday.58.3.41
VL - 58
SN - 00019887
ER -