ABSTRACT
The CH field is defined not just by its discourse but also by its attendant practices. These are obviously crucial to all CH professionals, but in a way, also to the discourse from which they derive and that they reciprocally contribute to sustaining and shaping. Therefore, one way to approach the CH discourse would be to look not at its underlying theoretical framework but at some of its more conspicuous symptoms: the practices it fosters, the real-world actions that serve to implement its theoretical tenets, what we could call its ‘indices,’ in the Peircean sense of the term. In this chapter, four essential CH practices are highlighted: listing, research, musealization, and conservation.
