Heritage Regimes and the State

Contributors
Nicolas Adell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail,
is currently conducting research on the anthropology of “heritage knowledge”
in a culturally comparative perspective.
Katia Ballacchino holds a PhD in Ethnology and Ethno-anthropology from the
Sapienza University of Rome. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of
Molise and at the Academy of Human and Social Sciences, and also works as a
cultrice della materia at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and the Sapienza
University of Rome. Her research focuses on popular traditions, the inventory
of Intangible Cultural Heritage in central and southern Italy, visual ethnography,
migration, social and cultural mediation, and human rights.
Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at
the University of Göttingen and leads the Göttingen Research Group on Cultural
Property. Her research focuses on the intersection of culture, economics and
politics.
Caroline Bodolec is a junior researcher with the French National Scientific Research
Center (CNRS) at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine
(UMR 8173 Chine, Corée, Japon), Paris, France. Her fields of research are
Intangible Cultural Heritage in China, especially in the Shaanxi province, and the
history of construction and anthropology of techniques during late-imperial and
contemporary China.