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Local declensions of heritages
On Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 / 14 h 30 - 17 h 00
MNHN Gardens of Plants / Big Amphitheatre of the laboratory of entomology »(to the right by entering), 45, street Buffon, underground Railway station of Austerlitz
Heritage, speech of Jean-baptist Mathieu (1793) to the inalienable property of Annette Weiner
By Jean-Pierre Warnier
Summary :
In the contemporary intellectual landscape, reflexion on cultural heritage can draw inspiration from two completely distinct sources. On the one hand, there is the history of the building of the notion of cultural heritage such as the UNESCO defines it, and which finds its origins in French revolutionary episode, romantic inheritance, speeches of Jean-baptist Mathieu and of the abbot Gregory, the foundation of pithy stores, Mérimée, inventory, Malraux, etc. All that is known in general well. On the other hand, and in a completely independent way, the analyses of Annette Weiner on the differentiation, in all societies, between inalienable property and alienable property are found. This differentiation is copied on differentiation between filiation and alliance. She undertakes a fundamental criticism of structuralism and of « any circulationnel » and the communicationnel from 1940s till 1990. There is a tension between these two notions, because if the notion of heritage of the UNESCO includes the notion of inalienability, it is intimately linked to practices of "promotion" and therefore of marchandisation which contradict inalienability or rather throw it into paradox.
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