Safeguarding the Art of Pizza Making: Parallel Use of the Traditional Specialities Guaranteed Scheme and the UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-542
Author(s):  
Harriet Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
State Actors

Abstract:“Traditional” foodways are represented as an important part of cultural heritage in Europe. Two legal instruments aim to play a role in safeguarding them—namely, the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) scheme and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. These instruments are sometimes used in parallel—for example, in the TSG registration for “Pizza Napoletana” and the nomination of “the art of Neapolitan ‘pizzaiuolo’” to one of the lists of the Convention. While recognizing the important role of state actors in this process, this article proposes going beyond a simple “misappropriation” thesis to look at the possible economic effects of registration and inscription.

scholarly journals Consent, agreement, communities and holders: the issue of social participation in the field of cultural heritage and the dialogue between the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage and the intangible heritage policy of Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Simone Toji
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Heritage Policy

This article considers some modes of activation and operationalization of the idea of social participation in the field of intangible cultural heritage. It regards the newest proposal of operating participation established by the UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and the experience of its implementation in Brazil. By analyzing how the issue of participation was developed through dialogue between the international and national levels, the paper also shows how the emergence of categories of social actors such as “communities” and “bearers” has been consolidated within the mentioned intangible cultural policies.

scholarly journals Heritage and Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Unesco Convention

This chapter explores the complex and contested relationship between memory and heritage. It covers topics such as notions of authenticity, intangible heritage, and commemoration and museums. Chapter contents: 5.0 Introduction (by Giulio Verdini) 5.1 Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China (by Harriet Evans) 5.2 ‘When It Comes to Intangible Cultural Heritage, Everyone Is Always Happy’: Some Thoughts on the Chinese Life of a UNESCO Convention (by Philipp Demgenski) 5.3 Ruins on Ruins: Forgetting, Commemorating, and Re-Forgetting the Third Front (by Paul Kendall) 5.4 Complex Collections, Contentious Memories: Reflections on the Jianchuan Museum Cluster (by Lisheng Zhang)

Japan’s Washoku as Intangible Heritage: The Role of National Food Traditions in UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage Scheme

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Voltaire Cang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Intangible Heritage

Abstract:“Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese” was inscribed in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013, joining the company of French, Mexican, and Mediterranean “national” food traditions in the exclusive List. Although a relatively novel abstraction, washoku (literally “Japanese food”) was formally defined and recreated by a panel of government-appointed experts for inscription purposes.This paper investigates washoku’s evolution into intangible heritage and the consequences of inscription. Analysis of field data from official meetings and primary text sources reveal that Japanese food heritage was both influenced and undermined by UNESCO’s intangible heritage system and the overriding precedent set by the “gastronomic meal of the French.” The example of washoku, though successfully inscribed, casts doubts on the feasibility of national food traditions in UNESCO’s system for intangible heritage, including their roles in promoting cultural diversity and heritage preservation.

scholarly journals THE CITY’S INTANGIBLE HERITAGE. MUSEALISATION, PROTECTION, EDUCATION, M. KWIECIŃSKA (ED.), THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF CRACOW 2016, 327 PP., ILL.

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Berendt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
The City

The 2016 publication The city’s intangible heritage. Musealisation, protection, education sums up an interdisciplinary conference organised by the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow. The book is of particular interest in terms of acknowledging the role of Polish museology in implementing the provisions of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Its novelty in terms of previous similar elaborations results from tackling the city’s aspect of this heritage. There still does not appear to be enough works on the diversity of the cultural areas mentioned in the Convention’s recommendations. It is imperative to expand research beyond the most frequently analysed culture of the countryside, as the city’s heritage is a valuable and diverse aspect of human activity. In recent years it has been particularly prone to fragmentation and degradation because of the dynamics of urban processes, social and economic changes and migrations of peoples. Both the authors of the publication, and the participants in the conference – museum professionals, museologists, heritage interpreters both from Poland and abroad – deal with questions concerning the aspects of identity and the city’s audiosphere, the safeguarding of its intangible heritage, musealisation and depositaries, as well as education.

scholarly journals Understanding and attributing cultural heritage values to individual plants

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Pamela Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Genetic Resource ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Conservation Values ◽  
Future Management

The cultural, both tangible and intangible heritage value of individual plant specimens are rarely included in discussions regarding botanical and cultural heritage, whilst the more scientific and conservation values of a plant as a genetic resource or habitat component are more defined and understood. Nassauer (1995) acknowledges that cultural concepts of nature are different from scientific concepts of ecological function. Widening multidisciplinary discussion and an increased consensus in the definition and role of intangible cultural heritage have all facilitated the potential of cultural heritage plant values being understood by the heritage sector. How can such heritage values be assessed, are there existing methodologies within the heritage and collections management sectors that can be used for living plants? Would this heritage value be passed on to a plant’s offspring, is heritage a tradeable commodity and how would such heritage status affect future management?

Cultural Heritage on the Web: Applied Digital Visual Anthropology and Local Cultural Property Rights Discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Rights Discourse

AbstractThe 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage specifies that communities are to be full partners in efforts to safeguard their intangible cultural heritage. Yet the notion of safeguarding has been complicated by the politics and mechanisms of digital circulation. Based on fieldwork in British Columbia and Thailand, I show that community-based productions of multimedia aimed at documenting, transmitting, and revitalizing intangible heritage are productive spaces in which local cultural property rights discourses are initiated and articulated. I argue that digital heritage initiatives can support decision making about the circulation—or restriction—of digital cultural heritage while drawing attention to the complexities of safeguarding heritage in the digital age.

scholarly journals UNESCO’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage: Sustainable development perspectives

Pravovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Elena Sinibaldi ◽  
◽  
Antonio Parente ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Definition Of

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has not only introduced a conceptual and applicative expansion of the interdisciplinary subjects applied to cultural heritage, but it has also increasingly encouraged an integrated planning of sustainable development policies for territories and communities that convey and shape their relative cultural and anthropomorphic identity, along with the re-thinking of the collective dimension of heritage in terms of rights to creation and fruition as well as the related cultural management. This article presents a reflection on the opportunity to identify and develop the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage as resources that are essential to one another. To this purpose, two illustrative UNESCO application paths are examined. The first relates to the recognition of The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato as a Cultural Landscape of World Heritage, pursuant to the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, while the second concerns the inscription of the intangible element The Celebration of Celestinian Forgiveness in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO 2003 Convention. Due to differences in paradigms and application criteria under the two UNESCO Conventions, which are also detectable in the Italian regulatory context, these case studies offer the opportunity to advance an interdisciplinary reflection aimed at rethinking safeguarding contexts, as well as enhancement and increasing accessibility of cultural heritage. As a result of the reflection, an analysis of the concept of living in relation to the anthropological definition of organic landscape, representation of collective identities (community-based heritage), inclusive places and sociability (public policy), communicative restitution (universal ethical values), participatory management (participative brand making), and integrated sustainability is derived.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Intangible Cultural Heritage and Urban Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12921
Author(s):  
Daniel Sampaio Tavares ◽  
Fernando Brandão Alves ◽  
Isabel Breda Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Relationship

The need to study and understand urban resilience has been defended by academics, justified by a new global context characterized by a growing urban population and a changing climate. Moreover, the importance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has been recognized by UNESCO since 2003. Nevertheless, the relationship between ICH and urban resilience discourses is recent, with academic studies on this topic seeing an exponential growth from 2017 onward. This article aims to develop a systematic literature review in order to answer the research question “how does intangible heritage relate to urban resilience?” and present current academic debates on this relationship. Following a methodology which entailed an academic database search and the application of exclusion criteria, 94 results from Scopus and Web of Science were retrieved and analysed. The article presents a discussion of results and showcases an existing linkage between both areas of study. This study demonstrates the fragmentation and diversity of the debates when addressing the relationship between the two topics, with an existing focus on sustainability discourses, built heritage and the role of local communities. Moreover, the article also shows a prevalence of discourses based on an engineering resilience approach. Considerations for future approaches to ICH and urban resilience are presented, namely, the need to better integrate ICH into urban resilience discourses.

КУЛЬТУРНА ПОЛІТИКА У СФЕРІ ЗБЕРЕЖЕННЯ НЕМАТЕРІАЛЬНОЇ СПАДЩИНИ : СУЧАСНИЙ СТАН ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
Admink Admink ◽  
Віта Костюк
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Complicated Situation

У рамках імплементації Конвенції про охорону нематеріальної культурної спадщини вивчено заходи культурної політики, що заклали основи для втілення новітніх політичних підходів, механізмів і програм. У контексті виконання міжнародно-правових стандартів UNESCO та положень Конвенції визначено курс на аналіз, збереження й розвиток культурного розмаїття та надбання. Умотивована необхідність формування стратегії культурної політики у галузі збереження нематеріальної культурної спадщини, що полягає у проектуванні й затвердженні культурних проектів національного й регіонального спрямування. Враховано наявну ускладнену ситуацію щодо ролі місцевої влади та обмеженість бюджетного фінансування в країні загалом. Встановлено, що дії, що сприятимуть виявленню елементів нематеріальної культурної спадщини, організації та реалізації заходів щодо її збереження в Україні повинні стати цільовими пріоритетами. Cultural policy measures within the framework of the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage are examined. A course on the analysis, conservation and development of cultural diversity and heritage in the context of the implementation of UNESCO international legal standards and the provisions of the Convention has been determined. The necessity of developing a strategy of cultural policy formation in the field of preservation of the intangible cultural heritage, which consists in the design and approval of cultural projects of national and regional orientation, is substantiated. The complicated situation regarding the role of local authorities and the limited budget financing in the country are taken into account. It is established that the priority should be given to actions that will help identify elements of the intangible cultural heritage, develop and implement measures for its preservation in Ukraine.

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