{"product_id":"heritage-fever-law-and-cultural-politics-in-a-decolonizing-state-paperback","title":"Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichelle Bigenho\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHenry Stobart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using cultural heritage lawmaking as a window through which to view the de-centered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian State, \u003cem\u003eHeritage Fever \u003c\/em\u003eunpacks the myriad motivations for heritage making in this this politically transformative moment. \u003cem\u003eHeritage Fever \u003c\/em\u003ereorients UNESCO-driven heritage debates towards a different set of questions--a pivot the authors call \"heritage otherwise.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese inquiries focus on how citizens use law to frame expressive culture and engage their new state. Through grounded case studies, Bigenho and Stobart reveal how competing claims over cultural expressions stimulate aficionado research and produce an abundance of cultural activities. Managing these productive conflicts often involves strategic uses of scale within the country's new political autonomies, even as old-style nationalisms lurk beneath a plurinational sheen. One case study highlights imagined Indigenous autonomy as bolstered by decolonizing historiography that predates the Plurinational State by several decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrivileging the stories told by those who championed or who were bureaucratically involved in the respective heritage-making campaigns, \u003cem\u003eHeritage Fever\u003c\/em\u003e's research draws from the authors' combined fieldwork in Bolivia over the last 30 years, recent multi-sited fieldwork conducted as a team, and ethnographic interviews conducted with Bolivians involved in heritage-making projects. Contributing to legal anthropology, critical heritage studies, ethnomusicology, and anthropology of the state, \u003cem\u003eHeritage Fever \u003c\/em\u003elooks beyond intellectual property frames, opens new perspectives on archival thinking, reflects on decolonizing practices in expertise and knowledge production, and uncovers the agency of mid-level citizens in a decolonizing state.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Bigenho\u003c\/strong\u003e is Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology and Africana \u0026amp; Latin American Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eIntimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Stobart\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMusic and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes\u003c\/em\u003e and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New (Ethno)musicologies\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64781738574173,"sku":"9780197756058","price":71.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/2V2VhTQg5t9780197756058.webp?v=1779691831","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/heritage-fever-law-and-cultural-politics-in-a-decolonizing-state-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}