Classifying Sound: A Tool to Enrich Intangible Heritage Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Parker ◽  
Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Management ◽  
Intangible Heritage

Relevance of heritage safeguarding plans in the Algerian Medina

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Salah-Salah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Community Model ◽  
New Vision ◽  
General Community

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the heritage management of the Algerian medinas subject to standardized safeguarding plans, referring only to the general community model, and then ignoring their particularities. Two medinas were selected as a case study: Annaba and Constantine.Design/methodology/approachSeveral methodologies of a descriptive historical issue and an exploratory study approach were used to determine the physical and cultural values of the two medinas. The objective is to see to what extent the medinas can be claimed as a place of affirmation and diffusion of urbanity.FindingsOn the basis of the results obtained, this work aims to articulate the tangible and intangible heritage as two inseparable dimensions to rethink the heritage of the Algerian medinas, taking into account the specificities and peculiarities of each of them.Originality/valueThis paper responds to an identified need to examine the issue of identity as a new approach that depends on the available characteristics of the historic center and the way in which planners and decision-makers use these resources as a guideline for implementing a new vision of safeguarding.

scholarly journals El paisaje natural del Valle Poblano-Tlaxcalteca

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Carlos Moreno Pantoja ◽  
Yesenia Hernández García
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Institutional Planning ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Official Data

This writing relates the professional and academic experience that was carried out in the field of Cultural, Natural, Material and Intangible Heritage, within the framework of updating the Development Plan of the Puebla- Tlaxcala Metropolitan Area. The part that is presented here is related to Natural Heritage. Although, heritage had already been considered in past plans and programs, on this occasion, the heritage is ordered, typified and categorized, using institutional planning instruments, the legal framework, even, only with official data. The topic adopts the official methodology that, through the demands and the terms of reference, the institutions formalize the contracted areas. Consequently, they ensure that research responds to institutionalized vision and mission. However, the official rigidity, the research group opened ways to approach the research from the four areas proposed by Querol (2000), in the cultural heritage management: knowing, controlling, planning and disseminating. Knowing and disseminating worked with lobbyists, those in charge of culture, tourism, as well as those responsible for religious buildings and archaeological sites. At the same time, control and plan were produced from the collective, sessioning as a seminar and workshop, this resulted in multidisciplinary learning that resulted in an updated interdisciplinary plan.

How Participatory is Participatory Heritage Management? The Politics of Safeguarding the AleviSemahRitual as Intangible Heritage

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Aykan
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Abstract:This article addresses the shortcomings of UNESCO’s intangible heritage program in developing effective mechanisms for community participation in heritage management. Contrary to its original intentions, by prioritizing national perspectives and interests on heritage, UNESCO’s program inadvertently allows for strengthening the control of the state over the heritage of minorities and other marginalized groups. This article explores the complexities of state-led intangible heritage management, using theSemahritual of Turkey’s Alevi religious groups as a case in point. I first detail how Alevi voices were silenced duringSemah’s intangible heritage nomination process, despite those documents submitted by Turkey to UNESCO that claim Alevis’ active engagement and full support. Then I discuss in what ways the heritage making ofSemahplays into the ongoing efforts of the Turkish government to integrate Alevis into dominant Sunni majority. I conclude by arguing that UNESCO’s intangible heritage program, though unintentionally, assists nondemocratic countries in their efforts to force marginalized groups to adopt the mainstream culture.

Perceived Authenticity and Place Attachment: New Findings from Chinese World Heritage Sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 109634802110276
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Yi ◽  
Xiaoxiao Fu ◽  
Kevin Kam Fung So ◽  
Chunhui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Southern China ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Building on previous research that claims tourists’ perceived authenticity is an antecedent to place attachment, this study explored the relationship between the two theoretical constructs. Specifically, the mechanism between perceived authenticity, place attachment, and loyalty was empirically tested. The data were collected at Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, and the Old Town of Lijiang, two UNESCO heritage sites in southern China. Contrary to previous studies, the findings indicate that (1) perceived authenticity can be an antecedent to place attachment, (2) across both sites, tourists’ perceived authenticity of architecture or intangible heritage exhibited various effects on different components of place attachment, (3) the constituents of place attachment significantly influence loyalty, and (4) place attachment mediates between perceived authenticity and loyalty. This study provided a refined understanding of the dynamics between perceived authenticity and place attachment and offered practical implications for heritage management and marketing.

Intangible Heritage Management and Multimodal Navigation

2011 ◽  
pp. 85-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluigi Ciocca ◽  
Alessandro Colombo ◽  
Raimondo Schettini ◽  
Maria Teresa Artese ◽  
Isabella Gagliardi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Information Meeting ◽  
Similarity Query ◽  
Retrieval Strategies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Tools And Methods

This chapter presents tools and methods which have been developed in order to manage and consult multimedia ethnographic archives for texts, images, audios (both music and speech), and videos. The system offers the user several retrieval strategies for querying the multimedia archive database by exploiting alphanumeric relational query, audio similarity query, clustering, and image and video similarity. Once a subset of information meeting the user’s needs has been identified, this can be displayed in a 3D virtual exhibition which can be visited interactively. The system presented is actually exploited to manage and multimodally navigate the Archive of Ethnography and Social History of the Italian Lombardy Region with some 18,000 oral documents, 3,000 textual transcriptions, 2,000 musical transcriptions, 5,000 MP3 audio files, 10,000 photos, and 500 videos.

The Importance of Oral History in (Industrial) Heritagisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-2018) ◽  
pp. 134-145
Author(s):  
Melinda Harlov-Csortán
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
International Committee ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The One

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee and its professional institutions, the international body of cultural and natural heritage, emphasise the importance of the human aspect, the individuals and groups who are involved in the heritage context: the authentic owner/practitioner; the contemporary local or inheritor; the professional, who understands; the policy maker, who protects, etc. Accordingly, in the heritagisation process, oral memories and interactions play defining roles on many levels. They can justify the heritage management process as well as construct what should be valued. This paper looks at this complex status and the roles oral history examples can have in the research and management process. The paper focuses on the intangible aspect within the category of industrial heritage as the specialised committee of UNESCO’S World Heritage Council defines and categorises it. Accordingly, it presents an international perspective, although heavily European-centred, as many critics have already expressed. The time frame focuses on the one and a half decades after 2003, when TICCIH, the International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage defined its objective; however, previous practices and research examples are mentioned as well. The paper is based on the comparative and textual analysis of theoretical texts (of oral history research), general guidelines (such as charters of the international heritage organisations), and case studies. The aim of the paper is not to provide a chronological overview of the overlaps between industrial and intangible heritage management in the European discourse but to point out the effective realisation of incorporating oral history into (industrial) heritage studies.

scholarly journals IDEE I ZAŁOŻENIA KONWENCJI O OCHRONIE DZIEDZICTWA KULTURALNEGO I NATURALNEGO I ICH REALIZACJA W POLSCE Z PERSPEKTYWY POLSKIEGO KOMITETU DO SPRAW UNESCO

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Sławomir Ratajski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Historic Monument ◽  
Wide Range

Over the years, the implementation of the Convention in Poland has revealed a number of issues related to protection of heritage in line with the patterns worked out at the UNESCO forum, and resulting from the incomplete adaptation of our legal system for the protection of historic monuments and sites, insufficient public awareness and the difficulty of incorporating historical sites into modern economic development strategies. The Polish UNESCO Committee addressed the above issues with a series of papers accompanying conferences participated in by a wide range of experts, decision-makers and local government activists at various levels. Observations concerning the application of the 1972 Convention, in particular with regard to legal protection of the world heritage sites in Poland, and the need to implement the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the 2011 UNESCO Recommendations on the Historical Urban Landscape, have convinced the Committee to review Polish legislation in terms of protection of heritage from the perspective of the UNESCO normative acts ratified by Poland. In 2014, we published a study on “Why and how to protect the cultural heritage ina modern way,” edited by the then-Chairman of the Polish UNESCO Committee, profesor Andrzej Rottermund. The paper presented a wide range of conditions for application of the existing legal provisions and expected changes, provided by various institutions and experts in the field of protection of tangible and intangible heritage and respect for cultural diversity. The need to developa new comprehensive law regulating protection of cultural heritage in Poland and taking into account the provisions of the UNESCO Convention was emphasised. What is particularly grave in application of the principles of the 1972 Convention is the lack of appropriate tools for managing world heritage sites. This includes, in particular: lack of legislation that would effectively protect the borderlines of the properties being inscribed and their buffer zones, view corridors and panoramas of sites of great historical significance. The lack of proper inclusion of local communities in the heritage management processes is a significant issue, according to the message of the 2005 Faro Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society.Article entitled “The Social Dimension of the Cultural and Natural Landscape”, issued in 2015, discusses issues concerning immediate vicinity of properties of great historical significance. It is stated that landscape is an integral entity consisting of natural elements and cultural heritage, which is understood as both tangible and intangible heritage. Consideration should be given to how notions occurring at the UNESCO forum evolved. Particular attention should be also paid to shifting from the concept of a historic monument to the concept of heritage, and the concept of historic monument protection to the concept of heritage management. It is also important to take into account the need for sustainable protection of the natural and cultural values of landscapes, both urban and rural.

Íhé Ńkètá and Òkè: concepts and practice of indigenous cultural heritage management in the Igbo cultural area of south-eastern Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu ◽  
J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Village Elders

PurposeThis study explored an alternative understanding of heritage through the lens of the Igbo cultural group in Nigeria. It used the Igbo concept of “Ihe Nketa” or “Oke” to examine the complex relationship between indigeneity, attachment and sustainability in the context of heritage management and conservation.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach was used, and ethnographic methods of data collection that include interviews and focus-group discussions (FGD) applied. The interview participants included village chiefs and the elderly (men and women), and the FGD comprised village elders (men and women) and youths. The interview guide contained demographic questions to determine age and occupation, followed by interactive open-ended questions stemming from the study's objectives. The interviews were conducted in the language most preferred by the respondents such as the Igbo language, Nigerian Pidgin English and the English language. The evidence generated was thematically analysed in a descriptive and interpretive manner.FindingsThe study found that while the Igbo understanding of heritage have related meaning with the definitions offered by the United Nations, their approach to heritage conservation takes a different turn through the concepts of “Ihe Nketa” or “Oke,” which recognises the ephemerality of tangible heritage resources with particular focus on the preservation of intangible heritage–knowledge over objects. The Igbo approach describes the framework for the acquisition, use and transfer of heritage resources in the Igbo society.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the understanding of the concept of heritage through the lens of the Igbo of Nigeria. Against the centralised national management approach to heritage, this paper argues that achieving sustainable heritage management in a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria requires the recognition of the principles that conserve(d) and manage(d) heritage among the indigenous/local peoples.

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