A Methodological Reflection: Deconstructing Cultural Elements for Enhancing Cross-Cultural Appreciation of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage

This article investigates Indonesia’s cultural diplomacy in Saudi Arabia through the tourism promotion programs from 2015 to 2018. Cultural diplomacy is aimed to raise awareness about the wealth of Indonesian culture relating to tourism that can be utilized in obtaining the desired outcomes. This article employs the concept of ‘sof power’ and qualitative approach with the technique of data collection by analysing the official documents from the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism, as well as the technique of secondary data collection that analyzes several literatures including books, reports, journals, and related articles. This article argues that Indonesia’s efforts in conducting cultural diplomacy practices in Saudi Arabia through the tourism promotion programs from 2015 to 2018 is involving the cultural elements to the programs that were Islamic-nuanced and recognized as the world’s intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO.

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Tourismological valorization of intangible cultural heritage of Serbia according to the Hilary du Cros method

Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology ◽

10.21301/eap.v9i1.11 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 195 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Željko Bjeljac ◽

Aleksandra Terzić ◽

Nevena Ćurčić

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

National Committee ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Spiritual Values ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Tourism Potential

The folk artistry of Serbia is rich in spiritual values tied to customs, celebrations, music, song, dance, games, stories and legends, and this kind of cultural heritage is presented through numerous festivals, events and tourist manifestations. In 2012, the network for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage was formed, comprised of the National committee for intangible cultural heritage, the Commission for admission into the registry of intangible cultural heritage, a network of coordinators and the Center for intangible cultural heritage of Serbia. These institutions have chosen 6 elements of intangible cultural heritage, out of 27 suggestions: the slava, the Đurđevdan ritual, the kolo dance, singing accompanied by gusle, Slovakian naive painting, the custom of making and lighting farmers’ candles, Pirot carpet weaving, and Zlakusa pottery as elements of cultural heritage which reflect the national and cultural identity of the Serbian people, and Slavic minorities. These elements of intangible cultural heritage have a certain tourism potential and can represent an important factor in the forming of the tourist brand of Serbia. In order to determine the importance of the 27 suggestions of intangible cultural elements of Serbia, an analysis was conducted, using an adapted form of the Hilary du Cros method of tourist valorization.

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Social Capital and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Theoretical Concepts of Departure and the Potential of Further Research

Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology ◽

10.2478/se-2020-0007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 122-135

Author(s):

Daniel Drápala

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Capital ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

The Social ◽

National Environment ◽

Theoretical Foundations

AbstractThis study discusses the use of the social capital concept in relation to the elements of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and their safeguarding. The author proceeds from theoretical concepts which were employed by some researchers outside ethnological research (P. Bourdieu, Y. F. Fukuyama, R. D. Putnam and others) in the last decades. He highlights one of the basic principles of social capital, which consists of sharing the real and the potential sources, knowledge, and information, which an individual or a group of persons acquire through more or less institutionalized relations. Based on the experience from the national environment (Czech Republic) and an international organization (UNESCO) he contemplates to which extent it is possible to apply the theoretical foundations of social capital on the ICH, where the principle of sharing of and mutual respect to cultural elements is one of the basic theses. The discussion about the social capital concept in social sciences has until now shown how wide the spectrum of possible perspectives is. There is not the only possible determinant interpretation and field. The chosen theme, the methodology, and the discipline’s tradition contribute to different territorial and conceptual adaptations of social capital, which, however, also generates a potential of using this concept in the form of transdisciplinary research. This can be used, in the future, for the study of intangible cultural heritage.

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On the English Translation of Intangible Cultural Heritage —— Taking Jiangxi Nuo culture as an example

Learning & Education ◽

10.18282/l-e.v9i4.1660 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Liu Wei

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

English Translation ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Target Language ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Reading Habits ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Translation Strategy ◽

Chinese Traditional Culture ◽

Cultural Traits

The English translation of intangible cultural heritage is one of the important ways to spread Chinese traditional culture to the world. To better convey the cultural elements, translation should strive to accommodate to the target language readers’ expectation horizon and reading habits in transforming discourse structure, while for the distinctive cultural traits and elements, the translator should strive to preserve their uniqueness by the use of alienation translation strategy.

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Cultural Destruction and Mass Atrocity Crimes: Strengthening Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Global Responsibility to Protect ◽

10.1163/1875-984x-13020015 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Juliette Paauwe ◽

Jahaan Pittalwala

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Collective Identity ◽

International Criminal ◽

International Criminal Tribunal ◽

Criminal Court ◽

Indigenous Populations ◽

Crimes Against Humanity ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Atrocity Crimes

Abstract Attacks against or affecting cultural heritage have been prosecuted exclusively as war crimes at both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court. However, this jurisprudence has limited the very concept of cultural heritage to solely tangible or physical manifestations of culture, excluding the numerous intangible cultural expressions of a given collective. This has precluded a constitutive link between attacks on cultural elements and crimes against humanity and genocide, and ignored the myriad ways in which the destruction of cultural heritage can adversely affect protected groups, including the disintegration of their collective identity. The rights of minority and indigenous populations such as the Uighurs in China can be better protected if acts damaging culture, including intangible cultural heritage, are inherently linked to crimes against humanity and genocide as this will compel states to better acknowledge, address, and prevent these crimes, in line with their obligations under the Responsibility to Protect.

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Study on 24 Jieling Drums as Urban Cultural Landscape in Malaysia

ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL ◽

10.30819/aemr.8-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 47-64

Author(s):

Yang Yunxi ◽

Chow Ow Wei

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Landscape ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Ancient China ◽

Chinese Tradition ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

The World ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Solar Terms

The 24 solar terms, a knowledge system incorporated in the East Asian lunisolar calendar, reflect a typical agricultural life shaped by the astronomical and phenological nature in ancient China. The UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage embodies this Chinese tradition and culture. It is also commonly observed among Chinese diasporas in other parts of the world. Since 1988 when Tan Chai Puan and Tan Hooi Song established 24 Jieling Drums (二十四节令鼓) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia by exploring this Chinese traditional heritage, artistic performances of this vibrant music genre have effectively transmitted drumming aesthetics in Malaysian urban landscape into the Chinese cultural sphere for over three decades. This study explores a characterised link between this millennia-old Chinese cultural heritage and 24 Jieling Drums as an urban cultural landscape in Malaysia, and discusses several issues on the cultural elements applied in a diversified land through the narrative.

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Safeguarding. A key dispositif of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology ◽

10.1590/1809-43412019v16a201 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

Author(s):

Antonio Arantes

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Common Sense ◽

Social Engineering ◽

The Political ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Turbulent Process ◽

Heritage Policy

Abstract The expression ‘safeguarding intangible cultural heritage’ was formed within the context of transformations in the instruments and strategies for protecting cultural elements usually designated ‘folklore and traditional (and popular) culture’.1 The adoption of a ‘cultural heritage approach’ to this subject was a somewhat turbulent process that drew, since the mid-twentieth century, a winding path of dialogues with, and divergences from, common sense notions and mainstream preservationist culture. Throughout this process, political and conceptual possibilities for social engineering were envisaged, some were discarded, choices were legitimized and, no less importantly, networks were formed of agents and narrators of the political and legal negotiations that eventually lead to designing UNESCO ICH Convention as officially adopted. This path will be explored in the following comments on the formation of safeguarding as a cultural heritage policy dispositive2 and significant contrasts to other instruments, in relation to which it has acquired specificity, meaning and scope.

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Innovative Design of Intangible Cultural Heritage Elements in Fashion Design Based on Interactive Evolutionary Computation

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2021/9913161 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Qi Xu ◽

Hubin Liu ◽

Yulong Liu ◽

Shan Wu

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Evolutionary Computation ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Current Status ◽

Fashion Design ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Interactive Evolutionary Computation ◽

Innovative Design ◽

Cultural Elements

The application of intangible cultural heritage cultural elements and traditional crafts in modern design, especially in modern fashion design, is not to flatter the public but to integrate the artistic language of intangible cultural heritage into modern fashion on the basis of deeply understanding the connotation of intangible cultural heritage and mastering its traditional crafts, so as to meet people’s demand for fashion and aesthetics. It can also promote the inheritance and development of traditional intangible cultural heritage culture and technology. The purpose of this study is to analyze the intangible cultural heritage elements in the innovative design of fashion design by using interactive evolutionary computation. According to the composition characteristics of cultural elements, this research uses interactive evolutionary calculation to analyze the current status of intangible cultural heritage elements in clothing design. Then, 30 fashion designers are selected to evaluate the design situation and judge the effect of the method on the design. The results show that the neural network has evaluated 36 generations, that is, 256 times of moderate value. Compared with the general IGA algorithm, adding neural network IGA can reduce the fatigue caused by user reference score and improve the quality of the optimal solution, and the cultural image attributes whose perception frequency is more than 50% are favored. It is concluded that the research method in the intangible cultural heritage elements in fashion design can improve user satisfaction and the effect is good. This research contributes to the application of intelligent algorithm in the field of fashion design.

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