Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO

Abstract

First edition. 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?