Cultural Heritage in Transit

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Cultural Heritage in Transit

Intangible Rights as Human Rights

Edited by: Deborah Kapchan

In the series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209464

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About this book

Analyzing "heritage events"—from Roma wedding music to Trinidadian wining, Moroccan verbal art, and neopagan rituals—Cultural Heritage in Transit tracks the effects of the heritage industry, focusing on cultural rights and human rights writ large.

Author information

Deborah Kapchan is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace.

Reviews

"This valuable, innovative, and coherent volume will add a complex and complementary dimension to discussions of human rights."—Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction. Intangible Rights: Cultural Heritage in Transit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Redefining Cultural Rights
Chapter 1. Protection as Dispossession: Government in the Vernacular Valdimar Tr. Hafstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past Dorothy Noyes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 3. The Right to Remain Cultural: Is Culture a Right in the Neoliberal Caribbean? Philip W. Scher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II. The Ironies of Heritage
Chapter 4. Cultural Heritage, Human Rights, and Reform Ideologies: The Case of Swedish Folklife Research Barbro Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 5. Balkan Romani Culture, Humans Rights, and the State: Whose Heritage? Carol Silverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 6. Intangible Rites: Heritage Sites, the Reburial Issue, and Modern Pagan Religions in Britain Sabina Magliocco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Part III. Making Sense of Human and Cultural Rights
Chapter 7. Intangible Heritage in Transit: Goytisolo’s Rescue and Moroccan Cultural Rights Deborah Kapchan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Human Rights; Law; Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: April 3, 2014
ISBN: 9780812209464