World heritage on the ground : ethnographic perspectives Introduction. UNESCO World Heritage Grounded Christoph Brumann and David Berliner Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site : People House Relations in the Medina of Fez Manon Istasse UNESCO is What : World Heritage Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali Charlotte Joy Heritage making in Lijiang : Governance Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life Yujie Zhu Multiple Nostalgias : The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) David Berliner Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Angkor World Heritage Site Keiko Miura One List a World of Difference : The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring Properties Noel B. Salazar Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site China Shu Li Wang The Business of Wonder : Public Meets Private at the World Heritage Site of Chichen Itza Lisa Breglia Decolonizing the Site : The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy Libya and Tanzania Jasper Chalcraft The Values of Exchange and the Issue of Control : Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo Nigeria Peter Probst Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape : Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africas Borders Lynn Meskell Conclusion. Imagining the Ground from Afar : Why the Sites are so Remote in World Heritage Committee Sessions Christoph Brumann