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Naturalizing ethnicity, culturalizing landscape: The politics of World Heritage in China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Naturalizing ethnicity, culturalizing landscape: The politics of World Heritage in China./
Author:	Wang, Yu.
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0602.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3346775
ISBN:	9781109018127

Naturalizing ethnicity, culturalizing landscape: The politics of World Heritage in China.
Wang, Yu.

Naturalizing ethnicity, culturalizing landscape: The politics of World Heritage in China. - 167 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0602.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2008.

In the past ten years, more than twenty sites in China have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. This growing World-Heritage "fever" has manifestly transformed not only the lives of people living in these sites, but also the environments and ecosystems that these people both inhabit and constitute. Focusing on the tourism development, ethnicity construction, and landscape conservation on a potential World Cultural Heritage Site in Yunnan Province of China, my research investigates how the World Heritage system generates debates about heritage authenticity and creates new sites of struggle over control of cultural and natural resources in this rural, ethnic, and poverty-stricken site of Yunnan. My central research questions are: (1) How is "World Heritage" defined, through what discourses and priorities? (2) What is meant by "authenticity" in the discourse and practice of world heritage? And who has the right to determine how to preserve the presumed authenticity of a given people/site? (3) How are global concepts, such as heritage, authenticity, and conservation, understood and practiced on the local level? (4) Under the World-Heritage protection system, how are "nature" and "culture" received and constructed by different parties? Specifically, what influence does the natural environment exert on the imagination of the dominant ethnic minority, the Hani, living in the site? This is a project designed to interrogate networks of transnational actors and the circuits of power-knowledge production, by questioning who can really speak for "nature", "culture", "community," and finally "development." In a context where both global and state policies continue orchestrating developments in contemporary China, and where local struggles over identification and poverty increasingly haunt the policies, my dissertation seeks to contribute to a literature that has focused on the problems of development and conservation with a case that is centrally engaged with international and state-based modes of governmentality. This project aims above all to explore the multivalency and complexity of such concepts as "unity," "integrity," and "authenticity" central to the World Heritage protection system, and thus to create a broader dialogue among intellectuals and policy makers about how to make world heritage sites more manageable and their policies more effective.

ISBN: 9781109018127Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Naturalizing ethnicity, culturalizing landscape: The politics of World Heritage in China.
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