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Front Cover -- Half Title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Culture and Value: An Introduction -- Section I -- Introduction: Creating, Owning, and Narrating within Tourist Economies -- 1. Tourism and Cultural Displays: Inventing Traditions for Whom? -- 2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism -- 3. Fairy-Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme) -- 4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present, and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration -- Section II -- Introduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes -- 5. Heredity, Hybridity, and Heritage from One Fin de Siècle to the Next -- 6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology -- 7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility -- 8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a Century -- Section III -- Introduction: Culture as Resource, Culture as Property -- 9. Expressive Resources: Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology -- 10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers' Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes -- 11. TK, TCE, and Co.: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation -- 12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture" -- Index -- Back Cover

This paper discusses dimensions of fieldwork in complex fields as they present themselves in international institutions, especially in the United Nations and its many sub-organizations and associated committees. The paper seeks to complement the growing literature on the anthropology of the United Nations and the anthropology of the European Community with reflections on the specific methodologies applicable to research in such settings. On the basis of field research in the World Intellectual Property Organization, the paper shows how the complexity of the international research field may be addressed. Understanding the ethnographic parameters of this field site contributes to an understanding of negotiation dynamics and of international organizations. Adapted from the source document.

Drawing examples from ethnic and popular music as well as from folk art, the paper explores the multivalence of expressive forms as local and European, even global aesthetic resources, whose territorial or ethno-national connection is - due to the power of aesthetic affect - but one among many possibilities of identification. It is argued first that the resource dimension of cultural expression has been furthered by the documentation and classification techniques of ethnological and folkloristic knowledge production, which in turn also facilitated circulation in multiple context. Second, the paper encourages that scholarship expand from recognising a political identification and instrumentalisation of aesthetic resources to understanding the economic appropriation of the production and consumption of such resources.

Interdisciplinary collaboration is a sensible approach for addressing complex problems. However, academic training and the resulting disciplinary habitus (and competition) often leave such collaborative skills woefully underdeveloped. This contribution outlines how ethnographic sensibilities and skills may contribute to overcoming borders between disciplinary practitioners and enhancing self-awareness within and across scientific and scholarly practice. It thus proposes ethnographic attention as interdisciplinary midwifery.