Culture, Content, and the Enclosure of Human Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John F Collins |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Issue | 109 |
| Pages | 121-135 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-2010-019 |
| OpenAlex | W2316173717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Cultural heritage, or patrimony, is a technology that transforms people's everyday habits, or culture, into forms of property. Thus in neoliberalism's wake, patrimony has been configured as a source of value essential to development schemes that stress knowledge economies. In this review and extension of anthropological approaches to patrimony, I argue that a vacillation between alienable and inalienable cultural properties constructed around quotidian habits, or what has been construed as some sort of human essence supervised by UNESCO, has come to rest today on a hybrid form of mining and enclosure of human qualities. I thus follow the logic of a rampant commodification under neoliberalism and consider how enclosure may be extended conceptually from analyses of land to the marketing of a peoplehood. My goal in doing so is to suggest avenues for future research on the global production of value and its relationship to struggles for social justice today
Aesthetics · Alienation · Commodification · Cultural heritage · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
With each pass, another stone. Ovoo at the heart of heritage, environment, and conflict
Mao in Tibetan disguise
Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
World Heritage and the Ontological Turn
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
Preserving the intangible living heritage in the George Town World Heritage Site, Malaysia
We gave the city its image and put it on the map.’
Heritage as a gift of Public space
Heritage agnosticism
Places to be young
SomosPatrimonio. Las transformaciones del patrimonio mundial
Ethnographic reflections on 'oppositional heritage discourse' in two post-earthquake Italian cities
"Reconstructing the "Cradle of Brazil
Buddhist Pilgrimage and the Ritual Ecology of Sacred Sites in the Indo-Gangetic Region
Heritage Prospecting and the Past as Future(s) in Peru
Matters of Patrimony
Favela in Replica
On Keeping and Selling
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |