Abstract
In this new century, barriers are falling, customs are changing and yet there is a core of meaning, of affect, of memory that people refuse to give up. In this flowing and foaming world, people rush towards the new, at the same time as they want to cling to meanings and shared experiences with others. Why? Because this sharing gives them a sense of self and of identity in an open world. The loss of such references is keenly felt, psychologically and politically, as is very evident in the world today.
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Notes
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This paper was delivered at the Meeting of the Centre National du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel, Vitré, France, 25 September 2013 and is unpublished.
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“Our contemporaries, the surmodernes, inhabit less and less countries and physical spaces and increasingly universes of new knowledge, creativity, and transformative enterprises, generating worlds and artificial settings where human existence does not cease to become technified” (my translation).
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I was a member of the UN World Commission on Culture and Development (1992–1996), Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO (1994–1998), and participated in the meetings held in the course of setting up the International Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (1999–2002).
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I use ‘mondiation’ in the sense in which Philipe Descola uses it, not to refer to postcolonial discourse but rather to the creation of a world view which then becomes prevalent in a society in a given historical period.
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In 1979 Rodolfo Stavenhagen, with a group of anthropologists and writers, had created a pioneering government programme for the safeguarding of local cultures, including urban cultures. It took us several years to carve out a policy concept for ‘culturas populares’. In 1993 the National Museum of Popular Cultures was created.
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I was a member of the Commission, then placed in charge of the Secretariat of the Commission. At that time, I was also Assistant Director-General for Culture in UNESCO, 1994–1998.
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Mahbub ul Haq, one of the major theorists of the Human Development Index, was a member of the Commission, and I myself had also worked with researchers in developing the Index at the United Nations Programme for Development.
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This was my perception in Manila, Philippines, when as ADG for Culture I was taken to see the culture heritage sites.
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As ADG for Culture I had been in charge of relations with other international institutions which had just recently begun programmes related to culture, especially the World Bank, WIPO and WTO, who began to define culture in terms of property. As could be expected, many conceptual and institutional boundary discussions ensued.
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Arizpe, L. (2015). The Genealogy of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In: Culture, Diversity and Heritage: Major Studies. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13811-4_8
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