Concern for “heritage” is often associated with Western cultural history’ originality and the spreading of the values related to it with a universalist and globalizing vocation. But the objects and the uses today covered by the sphere of the Western “cultural heritage” are sometimes already part of the cultural practices and collective representations of non-western societies. The central idea of this symposium is to carry out an international comparison of vocabulary variants and local linguistic uses of “heritage”, and to take seriously the emic definitions and redefinitions of “indigenous terms”. This plurality of “heritage” conceptions makes it possible to go beyond the rhetorical motif of the “great division” and the fiction of a continuous and globalized homogeneous “heritage” field.

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