Complying with UNESCO’s safeguarding policy for ICH, Korea’s Cultural Heritage Administration attempted to initiate a digital inventory project in 2010. A group of researchers of the different fields including ICH […]
In 2013, the UNESCO Office in Bangkok, in collaboration with the Islamabad, Hanoi, Apia, and Tashkent offices, undertook a project to experiment how intangible cultural heritage (ICH) could be used […]
New Challenges Last year Croatia joined the world community in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by holding an […]
In1This text is an extract of Arizpe, Lourdes. “The Genealogy of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. In press this new century, barriers are falling, customs are changing, and yet, […]
Introduction In the context of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a wide field of NGOs is active in between governments and communities to translate […]
Introduction We would like to explore the idea of cultural revitalization within the context of traditional Quebecois dance. This will be done through a fairly well-known example—Brandy Frotté from the […]
Among the many ethnic and linguist groups spread throughout Pakistan is the Pakhtun tribe of the Yousafzais, who live in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and across the Durand Line in Afghanistan. […]
In the Federated States of Micronesia, UNESCO’s ICH program is off to a great start in Yap—the state chosen to be the first in the FSM to embrace the opportunity. […]
Design intervention has been an established initiative of development projects initiated by governments and NGOs across the world as a means to enhance market reach and the livelihood of traditional […]
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage has always been an important issue for the large majority of countries and their citizens, long before the 2003 Convention was adopted. However, this was not […]
Closely linked to human dignity and identity, cultural heritage embodies resources that enable the cultural identification and development of individuals and communities, through which they express their humanity, give meaning […]
Eau le inailau a tamaitai—this Samoan adage explains the capability of women to achieve their goals in any domain through singularity of purpose and collaborative efforts. The saying originates from […]
If development is an aspiration, then culture is the historical sediment underlying this aspiration. Culture conveys humanity’s intersecting bonds and the kinds of rituals, practices, and representations that make up […]
Why is it relevant for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) over the long term that non-government and community-based organizations apply what they do locally to needs globally? Already, […]
Artifacts and art works, often classified as material culture, have long been targets of collectors’ classifications, typologies, or taxonomies. In architectural and urban preservation, inventories play a major role as […]
Anthropological perspectives on intangible cultural heritage have shifted significantly over the past few decades. Whereas traditions were formerly regarded as objective facts, the postmodern movement in general, and challenges to […]
Cultural heritage is a synchronized relationship involving society (systems of interactions connecting people), norms, and values (ideas such as belief systems that attribute relative importance). Symbols, technologies, and objects are […]
An indigenous oral legend copied and published without authorization… Traditional music taken from an ethnomusicological archive, remixed and sold without any attribution… The process of making a traditional musical instrument […]
Modern state cultural institutions can lend support to safeguarding its national ICH by injecting financial, administrative, and logistical support. However, the fact remains that for ICH to express itself as […]
UNESCO’s program on ‘Non-Physical Heritage,’ which was on the verge of ‘extinction’, was given a new impetus in 1992 under the title ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ on the occasion of the […]
