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The booming field of current heritage studies is complex, versatile, and often characterized by contradictory significance or interpretation, as claims for heritage can appear to be simultaneously uplifting and profoundly problematic. In essence, heritage is a value-laden concept that can never assume a neutral ground of connotation. Heritage indicates a mode of cultural production with reformative significance.
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This is a work-in-progress version of an article published in Heritage Regimes and the State, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012. Research for this work was supported by the EU through the European Regional Development Fund (the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory), and by the Estonian Science Foundation, Grant No. 7795.
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In Europe, ‘intangible cultural heritage’ and the related UNESCO programmes have stirred great interest mostly in Eastern, post-Soviet Europe—explained, perhaps, by their relative political marginalization in comparison to the West, but also by their significant historical experience of the manifestation of identity through pre-industrial practices of expressive culture (Kuutma 2009).
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Kuutma, K. (2013). Concepts and Contingencies in Heritage Politics. In: Arizpe, L., Amescua, C. (eds) Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 6. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00855-4_1
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