ABSTRACT
This chapter fits into a wider strategy of anthropologising the West, in this case, the Council of Europe, its conventions and its use of experts. The Council of Europe's Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro), opened for signature in Faro, 2005 largely speaks to heritage professionals and public sector workers. The organisation's cosmopolitanism mission stems from a belief in building a diverse but peaceful version of European identity, with identity seen as a key to recovery from this sense of loss. Faro asserts the rights of all to be involved with heritage and to benefit from activities linked to it. It states that responsibility for cultural heritage is shared by public authorities and the non-governmental sector. Adopting a Faro-style approach requires that people be humble experts; that people are aware of responsibility of representing an authority; be it a national, academic or individual expression of that authority.
