ABSTRACT

Ethnographic accounts of the implementation and impact of safeguarding measures upon the communities of practitioners in postcolonial settings are still relatively small in number. This article reports in-depth ethnographic data on the heritagisation process and plan of action for safeguarding the woodcrafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry of Madagascar, aiming to foster an empirically grounded debate on the uses of heritage in such contexts. The study argues that the inventorying and trademarking act as dispositifs of canonisation imposed upon intangible cultural heritage, and produce its social institutionalisation, whereby new bureaucratic structures are put in place to mediate the spontaneous ways ‘local practitioners’ define and practice their knowledge. Outlining the connective capacity of the heritagisation process to establish relationships between different fields – political, economic, cultural- the article highlights the controversial power/knowledge relations arising in the designation and management process, and the links between the UNESCO recognition and economics.

摘要

在后殖民时期，关于民族保护措施的实施及其影响的民族志记载仍然相对较少。本文报告了关于民族化过程和行动计划的深入的人种学数据，以保护马达加斯加Zafimaniry的木工知识，旨在就这种情况下的遗产使用展开基于经验的辩论。该研究认为，盘存和商标是非物质文化遗产强加于人的典范，并产生了其社会制度化，从而建立了新的官僚结构，以调解“本地从业者”自发定义和实践知识的方式。