(Dé)classer la “médecine populaire” en Suisse: de la suspicion de charlatanisme à la reconnaissance patrimoniale

By characterizing the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) as a "mainspring of cultural diversity," UNESCO has demonstrated its will to recognize marginalized cultural practices. However, the identification process conducted by the countries involved in the framework of the 2003 Convention t...

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Main Author: Julie Perrin
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Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé 2013-05-01
Series:Anthropologie & Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1076
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description By characterizing the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) as a "mainspring of cultural diversity," UNESCO has demonstrated its will to recognize marginalized cultural practices. However, the identification process conducted by the countries involved in the framework of the 2003 Convention tends to exclude certain ICH expressions. In the context of its Swiss implementation, this study explores the heritagization of practices related to "folk medicine". Drawing on an ethnographic approach, it accounts for the socio-historical trajectory of this category and the way heritage making involves diverse adjustments of these practices. Practices are thus adjusted and adapted to international standards and incorporated in hegemonic cultural representations. The study concludes that the requalification of these practices in a heritage logic takes into consideration the formal health system and reproduces medical hierarchies.
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(Dé)classer la “médecine populaire” en Suisse: de la suspicion de charlatanisme à la reconnaissance patrimoniale
Anthropologie & Santé
heritage
”Folk Medicine”
charlatanism
heritagization
cultural politics
UNESCO
title (Dé)classer la “médecine populaire” en Suisse: de la suspicion de charlatanisme à la reconnaissance patrimoniale
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title_short (Dé)classer la “médecine populaire” en Suisse: de la suspicion de charlatanisme à la reconnaissance patrimoniale
title_sort de classer la medecine populaire en suisse de la suspicion de charlatanisme a la reconnaissance patrimoniale
topic heritage
”Folk Medicine”
charlatanism
heritagization
cultural politics
UNESCO
url https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1076
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