Professor Jessica Roda for Sociétés & Représentations: “Tensions in Intangible Cultural Heritage”

In the postcolonial context of the 1970s, the anthropologization of culture had the effect of broadening the notion of heritage to a new field: intangible cultural heritage. Institutionalized by UNESCO in the early 2000s, it aims to safeguard practices threatened by homogenization, but also to make marginalized groups and minorities visible.