Eloquent Plasticity

Abstract This paper explores Namahage of Akita Prefecture as it assumes three different instantiations: 1) enactment as a private ritual within individual households on New Year’s Eve; 2) performance as a public festival at a shrine in mid-February; and 3) celebration as an “element” inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. I argue that in the first instance, Namahage is part of a vernacular religious “structure of feeling” in which religious elements are inseparable from community life; in the second instantiation, religion is more explicit and codified; and in the third iteration, religion is only vaguely articulated. Tracing the “same” tradition through different forms provides insight into the changing needs of communities and into the dynamics of change itself. With this in mind, I propose a model called hrönirism through which to broadly conceptualize notions of change and difference within traditions such as matsuri.

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Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage – The Krakow Bobbin Lace

Perspektywy Kultury ◽

10.35765/pk.2021.3302.13 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 191-200

Author(s):

Justyna Łukaszewska‑Haberkowa

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

The Third ◽

Unesco Convention ◽

Definition Of ◽

The City

In the first part of this paper the definition of the protection of intangible cultural heritage is introduced, based on the 2003 UNESCO Convention as well as the Polish legislation concerning the protection of items on the national list of intangible culture. The second part shortly characterizes the Krakow bobbin lace tradition along with its guardians, both present and past. In the third part it is systematically described what is being done to protect the tradition and craft in the Podgórze Culture Center thanks to the initiatives undertaken by certain guardians, and in the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow.

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On Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China from the Intellectual Property Rights Perspective

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10124369 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 4369 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Qing Lin ◽

Zheng Lian

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Patent Protection ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

The Third ◽

Current State ◽

The World ◽

Protection Mode ◽

Ipr Protection

With the development of globalization, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has come under increasing threat, making the safeguarding of ICH a crucial task for the governments and peoples of the world. This paper examines China’s current state of intellectual property (IPR) protection for ICH and proposes that ICH be placed under China’s legislative protection as intellectual property. Due to the immense diversity and complexity of ICH and the difficulty in reconciling various interests involved, the existing IPR protection mode faces many obstacles in practice. We present two case studies and three sets of recommendations on improving the protection of ICH in China. The first set relies on improving copyright protection for ICH, the second set relies on improving trademark and geographical protection for ICH, and the third set relies on improving patent protection for ICH.

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Negotiating with Authenticity to Ensure Sustainability of Traditional Cultural Festivals: Residents’ Perspectives about Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12030885 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 885

Author(s):

Suh-hee Choi ◽

Sharif Shams Imon ◽

Ubaldino Couto

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Economic Benefit ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Cultural Festivals ◽

Diverse Groups ◽

Perceptual Factors ◽

Insight Into

The present study examines the three perceptual factors (cultural, economic, and social) that affect residents’ attitude towards transformation in the search for sustainability. Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival, China’s intangible cultural heritage, was used as the case. Self-administered surveys were conducted on 378 resident festival participants in 2015 and 692 residents (both participants and non-participants) in 2017. The results show that regardless of previous experiences of participating in the festival, those who perceive more strongly about its cultural values tend to have positive attitudes towards its transformation, which may involve a loss of objective authenticity. Those who perceive more strongly that the festival is exclusive and does not embrace diverse participants are more likely to support its transformation. However, such a perception does not lead to their belief that diverse groups of people should be incorporated into the festival. Only among the non-participants from the sample collected in 2017, the perception that this festival provides economic benefit is associated with positive attitudes towards transforming and incorporating diverse groups of participants. This study provides insight into understanding the residents’ common and differentiated attitudes with regards to how much transformation is necessary to ensure sustainability of a local traditional cultural festival.

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EVENT TOURISM: THE EXPERIENCE OF INVOLVING THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN IN TOURISM

Service & Tourism Current Challenges ◽

10.12737/21104 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 79-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Дахия Чинкина ◽

Dakhiya Chinkina ◽

Ландыш Мухаметова ◽

Landysh Mukhametova ◽

Лада Розанова ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

Cultural Events ◽

The Third ◽

Natural Landscapes ◽

Event Tourism ◽

The Republic ◽

Rich History

The article presents the analysis of the involvement of the intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Tatarstan in tourism. Tremendous opportunities in this regard offer the organization of tourist events on the basis of cultural events. Event tourism is today one of the most rapidly developing types of tourism, whose turnover has grown to billions of dollars. The leading tourism regions of Russia, as well as the provinces demonstrate the growing number and attractiveness of tourism eventsfrom the Olympics Games in Sochi to the festival of folk crafts «Vyatskiy Lapot» in Kirov region. Vast expanses of Russia, the variety of natural landscapes, national and religious traditions of the population, rich history creating the preconditions for an infinite number of variants of transformation of cultural heritage in colorful tourism events. The Republic of Tatarstan, being one of the most economically and socially developed regions in Russia, shows in recent years high rates of the tourism industry development. Due to major sporting and cultural events a modern tourism infra- structure has been created here – transport, hotel, information, etc. Great attention is paid to the development of event tourism in the Republic, beginning with the ancient national holidays of peoples of Tatarstan, ending with «newborn» festivals of Medieval weapons in Ancient Bolgar and gastronomic festival «Delicious Kazan». Not coincidentally, Kazan became a leader among cities of Russia by reception of foreign tourists, taking in the winter of 2016 the third place after the two capitals. The article focuses on evenrelated activities that have a significant potential to become a powerful tourist attractors for the Republic of Tatarstan.

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O prawniczych kompetencjach Ignacego Czerwińskiego w świetle opinii profesjonalistów. Przewodnik testatora w komentarzach Antoniego Rosbierskiego

Prace Kulturoznawcze ◽

10.19195/0860-6668.23.4.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 113-131

Author(s):

Małgorzata Rygielska

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

19Th Century ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Surveillance Systems ◽

Sudden Loss ◽

The Face ◽

The Subject ◽

The Law ◽

Polish Culture ◽

Insight Into

Ignacy Czerwiński’s legal competences in the light of the opinions of professionals: Przewodnik testatora in Antoni Rosbierski’s commentsIn this article I present the opinions of Antoni Rosbierski 1764–1815, a jurist educated in Vienna, who worked in the area of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria inter alia as a councillor of court for the aristocracy in Lvov, on the subject of one of the first books of Ignacy Czerwiński 1749–1836, an active lawyer and, later, the author of Okolica Za-dniestrska 1811 which is considered to be the first ethnographic monograph. In Annales Jurisprudentiae pro Regnis Galiciae et Lodomeriae Rosbierski published in Latin a review of Czerwiński’s Przewodnik testatora [A testator’s guide], published in 1818 in Lvov. Until now, it has not been a subject of further studies. Both publications can be considered important sources for the evolution of positive laws in 19th-century Galicia that provide insight into the law culture of that time, which is an important element of the intangible cultural heritage of any society. For this reason, the publication is worth reminding of. Przewodnik testatora may be interesting not only to jurist specialists but also to those researchers of Polish culture who are interested in the problem of the relation between law and custom. It was one of many attempts at giving an answer to the question of how to counteract denationalization in the face of the sudden loss of sovereignty and extensive surveillance systems.

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Klasifikasi Topeng Cirebon menggunakan Metode Convolutional Neural Network

JATISI (Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi) ◽

10.35957/jatisi.v8i1.568 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 163-169

Author(s):

Felix Indra Kurniadi

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Image Processing ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Convolutional Neural Network ◽

Automatic Identification ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Image Processing Techniques ◽

The Third ◽

The Government ◽

Processing Techniques

Cirebon mask is one of the intangible cultural heritage in Indonesia. It is one of the prominent cultural assets from Cirebon and becoming one of the identity Cirebon culture. However, the current condition people tend to forget the cultural asset and lack of help from the government makes the Cirebon mask become the third-rate assets. Our concern lays on the extinction of this Mask. We want to implement digitation and automatic identification using image processing techniques. In this paper, we applied the Convolutional Neural Network for Cirebon Mask classification.

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Heritage and Memory

10.16997/book58.f ◽

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)

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Certification proposal for the traditional professional cook of the state of Puebla

Journal Labor and Demographic economics ◽

10.35429/jlde.2019.4.3.14.24 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 14-24

Author(s):

José Ángel Perea-Balbuena ◽

Víctor Josaphat Carrasco-Romero ◽

María de los Dolores Zamora-Fernandez

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

The State ◽

Food Culture ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

The Third ◽

The World ◽

Training Courses ◽

Culinary Knowledge ◽

Food Identity ◽

The City

Eating is a biological act and cooking, a cultural act; the gastronomy in Mexico, for the culinary variety is the third in the world. The cuisine is made up of indigenous, spanish and asian elements, making it one of the most representative of the country, which consolidates its legitimate pride of identity. A good part of tourism moves, to a large extent, in search of gastronomic delights, find these in the typical markets of a province, a place or a good inn; allowing to interact with the popular gastronomic identity. The objective is to create a certification for the traditional professional cook of the markets of the city of Puebla in order to have the knowledge and technical tools to offer food with the best possible quality, thus allowing to generate an identity of gastronomic culture. In order to substantiate this certification, a study was carried out in the markets of the city having generated results that allowed the realization of the first training courses, which shall lay down the basis for the relevant certification. The kitchens in Puebla, have been laboratories of the food culture, the traditional professional cook, possess a culinary knowledge that contribute to the intangible cultural heritage, for this reason it is necessary that they possess a certification that gives them certainty of value in the activities that they carry out to frame in food identity.

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