New Reflections on the Protection of World Heritage in the Future: Global Symbolic Meaning of Autochthonous and Indigenous Origins of Water Navigation

AbstractPottery has been defined and redefined by many scholars of history and anthropologist. Pottery is wrapped in the past with no written record; this study intends to work on the historical analysis of form, style and techniques of Pottery tradition, the various pottery associations in Nigeria will be identified and discussed. The study will also examine the symbolic meaning of each of the traditions, it will also project the aesthetic qualities, and the effects of new ideas of pottery of the indigenous Benin people, and how pottery is interpreted/ the study hopes to compile and analyze forms of pottery that will rekindle interest in pottery, and serve as reference point for the future generation. Keyword: pottery, summary, development, knowledge.

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Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings as Hotels in Melaka and George Town - UNESCO World Heritage Cities

The Journal of Social Sciences Research ◽

10.32861/jssr.spi6.22.27 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 22-27

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Reuse ◽

Research Result ◽

World Heritage ◽

Unesco World Heritage ◽

The Future ◽

Heritage Buildings ◽

Heritage Building ◽

The Right ◽

George Town ◽

Day By Day

The most visible and neglected heritages nowadays are heritage buildings which are widely available throughout the country. As the number of heritage building have been decreasing day by day, peoples’ consciousness has begun to arise. Many heritage buildings have been conserved for various purposes. In general, with their attractive features, most conserved heritage buildings will be adaptive reused as museums, offices, restaurants, residences, business premises and other public use thus becoming one the focal of tourists’ attractions. However, the approach in adapting and conserving heritage buildings in Malaysia are not practiced with the right concepts and methods. This research is conducted to assess the adaptive reuse works that have been implemented on the heritage buildings as hotels specifically in Melaka and George Town UNESCO World Heritage Cities. The hotels which are adapted from heritage buildings have been specifically identified and questionnaires surveys have been performed to the respective owners or managers in order to obtain their responses thus arriving to a more accurate research result. Several findings have been obtained which will help in promoting adaptive reuse works in the future.

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Obrzędowe pieczywo weselne podlaskiej tradycji wschodniej – korowaj, rahulki, dwojany, korowajczyki, huski

Acta Neophilologica ◽

10.31648/an.5226 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (XXII) ◽

pp. 187-204

Author(s):

Irena Matus

Keyword(s):

Symbolic Meaning ◽

Baking Process ◽

The Future

This article presents types of ritual bread used as part of wedding customs, paying special attention to korowaj. In former villages, a wedding could not exist with-out the traditional korowaj and ritual baking pastries such as korowajczyki, dwojany, huski. Korowaj was treated as sanctity and it was sacralised. It was baked only once in a lifetime for the bride and for the groom. The paper discusses in detail the baking process, the accompanying rules and prohibitions and special songs which were sung. The ceremonial baking was prepared by a team of women – korowajnić. Dough served to predict the future life of the bride and the groom.Decorations made of dough were significant, characterized by timeless symbolism, for example, the most popular twisted spiral-like huski,double-branched sticks dwojany and triple-branched sticks trojany – both covered with dough. In time, new floristic and zoomorphic decorations appeared. Korowaj was round, which had a symbolic meaning as a wedding ring, and offered to newlyweds and the wedding guests. In former villages korowajczyki were also baked for the bride and used in magical procedures. Huski were given as gifts. The symbolic dwojany were prepared to protect marriage from disintegration. With the fall of tra-ditional culture, the old customs and wedding ceremonies disappeared and the baking of ritual pastries was ceased.

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Predicting World Heritage site visitation intentions of North American park visitors

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology ◽

10.1108/jhtt-10-2017-0109 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 417-437 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elizabeth Halpenny ◽

Shintaro Kono ◽

Farhad Moghimehfar

Keyword(s):

Social Influence ◽

Brand Equity ◽

North American ◽

Heritage Tourism ◽

World Heritage ◽

Behavioural Control ◽

Content Type ◽

Perceived Behavioural Control ◽

Tourism Studies ◽

The Future

Purpose World Heritage sites (WHS) can play an important role in promoting visitation to emerging and remote destinations. Guided by the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this study aims to investigate factors that predict intentions to visit WHS. Design/methodology/approach Survey questionnaires were used to collect data from visitors (n = 519) to four Western North American WHS. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to identify three reflective models (attitude toward visiting World Heritage, perceived behavioural control and intention to visit WHS in the future), three formative models (attitude toward World Heritage designation, social influence (subjective norms) to visit World Heritage and World Heritage tourism brand equity) and a structural model. Findings World Heritage tourism brand equity and social influence were strong positive predictors of intentions to visit WHS in the future. Attitudes towards World Heritage designation, followed by World Heritage travel attitudes and perceived behavioural control, were progressively weaker, yet positive predictors. However, the latter two concepts’ impact was negligible. Originality/value This study addresses four deficiencies in tourism studies: TPB studies have failed to find consistent predictors of intentions to visit destinations; very few studies have attempted to verify the factors that predict visitation to WHS, despite the opportunities and costs that can arise from WHS-related tourism; few studies of tourists’ perceptions of World Heritage and related WHS travel intentions have been conducted in North America; and PLS-SEM was used to perform statistical methods not commonly used in tourism studies including formative models, importance-performance mapping and confirmatory tetrad analysis.

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Psychology and World Heritage? Reflections on Time, Memory, and Imagination for a Heritage Context

International Journal of Cultural Property ◽

10.1017/s0940739120000168 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 259-276

Author(s):

Ciarán Benson

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Semantic Memory ◽

Building Blocks ◽

World Heritage ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Common Humanity ◽

World Heritage Sites ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Heritage Studies ◽

The Future

AbstractConcepts of memory—specifically notions of collective memory—are associated in heritage studies with the central idea of authenticity. In this article I review what is relevant in the psychology of memory to these discourses, and reflect on this association of collective memory and authenticity in heritage studies, notably in the 1994 Nara Document on Authenticity. Concepts of time are central to this review. The idea of world heritage is, it is suggested, a future-oriented ideal for a common humanity. The metaphorical underpinnings of our vernacular uses of time-concepts, such as past and future, are examined. Psychological considerations of memory as retrieval or reconstruction are then outlined. The distinction between kinds of memory, notably episodic and semantic memory, is then presented. These, it is argued, are building blocks for collective memory, which, in turn, is the seedbed for the underemphasized but potent idea of collective imagination. If the primary function of memory is actually oriented to the future, then imagination is what puts kinds of memory to work in both predicting and creating the future. Our ability to imagine—to mentally project forward—is heavily dependent on what we know—that is, on semantic memory. The article concludes with some reflections on the policy implications of this analysis for the visitor to world heritage sites.

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