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Making intangible heritage : El Condor Pasa and other stories from UNESCO /

In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein - folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO - tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the context important for understanding UNESCO...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Édition:First edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prelude: Confessions of a folklorist
  • 1. Making heritage: Introduction
  • 2. Making threats: The condor's flight
  • 3. Making lists: The dance band in the hospital
  • 4. Making communities: Protection as dispossession
  • 5. Making festivals: Folklorization revisited
  • Postlude: Intangible heritage as diagnosis, safeguarding as treatment
  • Conclusion: If intangible heritage is the solution, what is the problem?