folklorization
In its most common acceptation today, “to folklorize” means to remove traditional expressive culture from an original point of production and relocate it in a distanced setting of consumption. Uncomfortably, for folklorists, the root sense of “folklore” entailed in this construction is of an always, already adulterated product. As in Germany and much of Latin America, the term “folklore” as referenced in folklorization implies something prettified or staged.1
“A form of processing local traditions for external consumption.”1