Intangible Cultural Heritage and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans

This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their cultural identity.

Autorentext

Milo Milenkovi is Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Anthropological aims, ethnological means

Part I Approaching ICH after post-cultural Anthropology

2 Heritage denialism: Anthropology and critical heritage studies against ICH safeguarding

3 Post-cultural anthropology: The source of contemporary heritage denialism

Part II Ethnologists as expert-bureaucrats: Lessons from the Western Balkans

4 Beyond anthropology versus ethnology in former Yugoslavia

5 Fieldwork: Method and context

6 The ethnic versus territorial attribution of minority, contested, and shared intangible heritage

7 Professional expertise versus the politicization of knowledge in ICH arena

8 Heritage disciplines within ICH reconciliation and development framework in the Western Balkans

Part III Ne nuntium necare

Conclusion: Putting anthropology back to heritage

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Subject Index