Resumen de Le patrimoine immatériel et la production métaculturelle du patrimoine
This essay works towards a notion of global public sphere through an analysis of UNESCO�s efforts to define and protect world heritage. It will argue that world heritage is a vehicle for envisioning and constituting a global polity within the conceptual space of a global cultural commons. The author examines UNESCO�s project of the list of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in order to demonstrate how valorization, regulation, and instrumentalization alter the relationship of cultural assets to those who are identified with them, as well as to others. More specifically, such instrumentalizations produce an asymmetry between the diversity of those who produce cultural assets in the first place and the humanity to which those assets come to belong as world heritage
