This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO ...2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage , the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies, the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, public servants, professionals, students and community members, this volume is also deeply enhanced by an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the theories and practices of heritage and museum studies, anthropology, folklore studies, ethnomusicology, and the study of cultural policy and related law. The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage undoubtedly broadens the international heritage discourse and is an invaluable learning tool for instructors, students and practitioners in the field.
Introduction Michelle Stefano and Peter Davis
A Decade Later: Critical Reflections on the UNESCO-ICH Paradigm
1. Development of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention: Creating a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake 2. The Examination of Nomination Files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Rieks Smeets and Harriet Deacon 3. A Conversation with Richard Kurin 4. Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Owing a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention Chiara Bortolloto 5. Is Intangible Cultural Heritage an Anthropological Topic? Towards Interdisciplinarity in France Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet 6. The Impact of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on National Policy-making: Developing a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake
Reality Check: The Challenges Facing ICH Safeguarding
7. From the Bottom Up: the Identification and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guyana Aron Mazel, Gerard Corsane, Raquel Thomas and Samantha James 8. Making the Past Pay? Intangible (Cultural) Heritage in South Africa and Mauritius Rosabelle Boswell 9. A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba 10. The Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Tracey L-D Lu 11. Ageing Musically: Tangible Sites of Intangible Cultural Heritage Bradley Hanson 12. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic: Between National and Local Heritage Petr Janeček 13. Damming Ava Mezin: Challenges to Safeguarding Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey Sarah Elliott 14. Documenting and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Experience in Scotland Alison McCleery and Jared Bowers
Intangible Cultural Heritage Up Close
15. Officially Ridin’ Swangas: Slab as Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Houston, Texas Langston Collin Wilkins 16. Locating Intangible Cultural Heritage in Norway Joel Taylor 17. Intangible Cultural Heritage in India: Reflections on Selected Forms of Dance Parasmoni Dutta 18. Second-hand as Living Heritage: Intangible Dimensions of Things with History Staffan Appelgren and Anna Bohlin 19. A Conversation with Linina Phuttitarn on Safeguarding a Spiritual Festival in Thailand 20. Public Experiences and the Social Capacity of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan: Bingata, a Textile-Dyeing Practice from Okinawa Sumiko Sarashima 21. Stretching the Dough: Economic Resiliency and the Kinaesthetics of Food Heritage across the US-Mexico Border Maribel Alvarez
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Place
22. Refuting Timelessness: Emerging Relationships to Intangible Cultural Heritage for Younger Indigenous Australians Amanda Kearney and Gabrielle Kowalewski 23. Common Ground: Insurgence, Imagination and Intangible Cultural Heritage Jos Smith 24. Indigenous Geography and Place-Based Intangible Cultural Heritage RDK Herman 25. ‘If there’s no place to dance to it, it’s going to die’: A Conversation on the Living Tradition of Baltimore Club Music and the Importance of Place Michelle L. Stefano with Christopher Clayton and Baronhawk Poitier 26. Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Interactions, Memories and Meanings Maggie Roe
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Museums and Archives
27. Making History Tangible: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 28. A Conversation with Clifford Murphy on Archives and Intangible Cultural Heritage 29. Bin Jelmood House: Narrating an Intangible History in Qatar Scott Cooper and Karen Exell 30. Standing in the Gap: Lumbee Cultural Preservation at the Baltimore American Indian Center Ashley Minner 31. A Conversation with Tara Gujadhur on the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center in Laos 32. Museums and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lusophone Countries Ana Mercedes Stoffel and Isabel Victor
Alternative Approaches to Safeguarding and Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage
33. Safeguarding Maritime Intangible Cultural Heritage: Ecomuseum Batana, Croatia Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir 34. Reflections of a Heritage Professional: Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Ecomuseum of Terraces and Vineyards, Italy Donatella Murtas 35. Conveying Peruvian Intangible Heritage through Digital Environments Natalie Underberg-Goode 36. Growing Ecomuseums on the Canadian Prairies: Prospects for Intangible Cultural Heritage Glenn Sutter 37. The Intangible Made Tangible in Wales Einir M. Young, Gwenan H. Griffith, Marc Evans, S. Arwel Jones 38. A Conversation with Paula dos Santos and Marcelle Pereira on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Social and Ecological Justice
"It is a most welcome addition to literature, and a must-have for all who want to deepen their understanding of the scholarly research into and safeguarding practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (...) With the publication of this Routledge Companion, Intangible Cultural Heritage has certainly reached a new level of scholarly recognition. And that is a very good thing."
- Steven Engelsman, Director, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria "The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritgae provides asnapshop- or rather, a whole picture album- of the evolution of a profoundly important cultural policiy and paradigm... The editors have assembled here a massive and varied set of essays- 38 individual chapters written by 54 authors, including anthropologists, folklorists, legals scholars, museum professionals, ethomusicologists, and community members." - Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, USA
Michelle L. Stefano is a Folklife Specialist (Research and Programs) at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. From 2011-2016, Stefano worked for Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the state of Maryland, of which she was its Co-Director from 2015-2016. From 2012-2016, she led the partnership between Maryland Traditions and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies. She co-edited Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (2012) with Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.
Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He is honorary editor of Archives of Natural History , the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History, and a series editor for Heritage Matters . His research interests include the interactions between nature, culture and concepts of place and space. He has published widely on ecomuseums and intangible cultural heritage.
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Na Slovenskem narodopisnem inštitutu Urban Jarnik, kjer raziskave in dokumentacije obsegajo vsa področja slovstvene folklore, je nesnovna kulturna dediščina močno razvejano raziskovalno področje. ...Avtorica v prispevku predstavlja kratek zgodovinski pregled zbiranja slovstvene folklore na Koroškem v funkciji utrjevanja slovenskega jezika, kulture in identitete (do leta 1920), v funkciji ohranjanja jezika, kulture in identitete (do leta 1991) in v iskanju sodobnih funkcij slovenske slovstvene folklore na Koroškem kot žive dediščine.
The Catalogue of Good Practices of Sustainable Culinary Heritage Experiences in Mediterranean Area provides a detailed description of 18 culinary experiences from 8 different Mediterranean countries: ...Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus and Slovenia. The good practices cover various types of culinary experiences, namely tourist sites networks dedicated to food or culinary products, services connected to food products, professional activities linked to food highlighted through a touristic activity, culinary events, specific tourist sites dedicated to food or culinary products. The Catalogue reveals how culinary experiences work, who is involved, and what are the “ingredients” which make them successful. Each culinary experience is described through a story in which you will find valuable information on: local (territorial) anchoring and relationship to heritage, organising and managing aspects, relation to existing policies and strategies, sustainability aspects, innovative aspects, monitoring and stakeholders’ views.
Extensive work is a result of four year research within the international project Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement, and brings new insights into women in architecture, construction, ...design, urban planning and landscape architecture in Europe and in the rest of the world. It is divided into eight chapters that combine 116 articles on topics: A. Women’s education and training: National and international mappings~B. Women’s legacy and heritage: Protection, restoration and enhancement~C. Women in communication and professional networks~D. Women and cultural tourism~E. Women’s achievements and professional attainments: Moving boundaries~F. Women and sustainability: City and Landscape~G. Women ‘as subjects’: Documentation, methodology, interpretation and enhancement~SG. Design drawings.
Divided as it is, philology is constantly improving through the emergence of new interdisciplinary sciences. One among them is ethnolinguistics. It has taken particularly firm roots in Slavic ...studies, especially with the Russian and Polish schools. While the diachronous researches of Nikita I. Tolstoy in Svetlana Tolstaya reach as far back as Slavic mythology, the Polish school, headed by Jerzy Bartmińsky, flirts with cognitive linguistics and is more interested, through its synchronous approach, in contemporary themes. The present monograph aims to evaluate the work carried out in this field to date and to raise awareness of the new interdisciplinary direction, which may link up the ethnologies and linguistics of different directions.
Terraced landscapes with agricultural terraces are cultural landscapes with a special value. This volume presents them in pictures and words in all their diversity and attractiveness. After ...discussing the global and European dimensions of terraced landscapes and their agricultural terraces, the volume focuses on Slovenian terraced landscapes~they are discussed separately by landscape types, individual regions, and sample cases in the territory of selected settlements (pilot areas). The conclusion also draws attention to the exceptional value and appeal of non-agricultural terraced landscapes that have been shaped by nature and man.
Raziskava se je osredotočila na povezavo med neformalnim izobraževanjem in ohranjanjem kulturne dediščine v lokalnem okolju, za katerega so značilne večkulturnost in migracije. V okviru študije ...primera so bile uporabljene kvalitativne metode raziskovalnega dela, s katerimi je bilo analizirano izobraževanje v 28 študijskih krožkih v društvu Anbot za obdobje 2003–2011.Ugotovitve kažejo, da je izobraževanje učinkovito pri ohranjanju kulturne dediščine, ker je nastala tesna povezanost med prostovoljnim delom in strokovnim znanjem. Učinkovito je tudi pri konstruiranju lokalne identitete, saj sta se z delovanjem društva razvila pomensko okolje in skupnost, s katero se ljudje identificirajo.
Semantično polje tega prispevka zajema koncepte, kot so izobraževalna vloga muzejev, organizirano prostovoljstvo, kulturna dediščina. Avtorica se v prispevku sprašuje o vlogi muzeja v starajoči se ...družbi in preuči sodobni model izobraževanja starejših odraslih v muzejih, ki naj na konceptualni ravni povezuje izkustveno znanje starejših z nesnovno obliko kulturne dediščine in prostovoljstvom. Avtorica nadalje predstavi razvojni model Mediator v kulturi, ki so ga zasnovali na Slovenski univerzi za tretje življenjsko obdobje, pri tem pa so v partnerstvo povabili nekatere slovenske muzeje. Ta model ima namen spodbuditi in razviti prostovoljno delo starejših odraslih v muzejih, narediti izobraževanje starejših družbeno vidno in koristno, saj naj se to zaokroži v delo prostovoljnih kulturnih mediatorjev v muzejih. Po tem modelu se starejši izobražujejo tematsko in namensko za prostovoljno delo v muzeju, muzejski delavci pa za razumevanje narave in vrednot prostovoljstva, za pripravljenost na spremembo in ustvarjanje novih muzejskih prostovoljskih vlog za starejše. Ker je družbena skupina starejših odraslih (krivično) odrinjena na družbeni rob in prostovoljstva v našem okolju ne cenimo dovolj, je v model zajeta sistematična javna kampanja. Avtorica analizira tudi vrednost in namen povezav med muzejem in nevladnimi organizacijami v luči družbenega poslanstva muzejev in spreminjajoče se vloge javnih kulturnih ustanov.