“…(Coombe and Turcotte 2012:304) In other words, because of the entanglement of different systems of valuation -by practitioners, cultural experts, state officials, and markets -at different levels (local, national, transnational, and international), ICH recognition can be a mixed blessing for those communities that are 'bearers' -but perhaps no longer 'owners' -of the cultural practice deemed intangible heritage. These connections between culture -including cultural heritage -and possessive (individual, collective and/or indigenous) subjects who claim rights over or property of cultural 'objects' have been studied critically and comprehensively by Rosemary Coombe in a series of books and articles (Coombe 1998(Coombe , 2005(Coombe , 2009(Coombe , 2011a(Coombe , 2011b(Coombe , 2013. The combined effect of these studies is to denaturalise both (cultural) subject and (cultural) object by treating these as constituted by their mutual connection; the discursive, practical and performative aspects of these connectionsas claims, rights, identifications, etc.…”