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)

scholarly journals Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage – The Krakow Bobbin Lace

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.

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.

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 Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

scholarly journals Blockchain Technology for Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shen Lvping
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Loss ◽  
Network Attacks ◽  
Malicious Software ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Encryption Algorithms

With the development of information technology and network technology, digital archive management systems have been widely used in archive management. Different from the inherent uniqueness and strong tamper-proof modification of traditional paper archives, electronic archives are stored in centralized databases which face more risks of network attacks, data loss, or stealing through malicious software and are more likely to be forged and tampered by internal managers or external attackers. The management of intangible cultural heritage archives is an important part of intangible cultural heritage protection. Because intangible heritage archives are different from traditional official archives, traditional archive management methods cannot be fully applied to intangible heritage archives’ management. This study combines the characteristics of blockchain technology with distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, encryption algorithms, etc., and proposes intangible cultural heritage file management based on blockchain technology for the complex, highly dispersed, large quantity, and low quality of intangible cultural heritage files. Optimizing methods, applying blockchain technology to the authenticity protection of electronic archives and designing and developing an archive management system based on blockchain technology, help to solve a series of problems in the process of intangible cultural heritage archives management.

Ephemeral Architecture and Painted Architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-177
Author(s):  
Gabriele Rossi ◽  
Valentina Castagnolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Unesco Convention

The object of this study is a group of architectural perspectives painted on the domes and walls of noble palaces in Apulia, in particular that the baronial palace in Botrugno, the Broquier palace in Trani, and the Manes palace in Bisceglie. The perspectives belong to the “Quadratura” genre that developed in Italy and Europe in the Baroque period, but the architectural solutions represented are specific of the Apulian regional context, of Neapolitan derivation, rather than linked to the noble models of the Emilian and Roman master experiences. These architectural perspectives can be considered belonging to that “immaterial cultural heritage,” as defined by the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2003, if we consider the cultural significance of these painting representations—as previously mentioned—for their relationship with the 16th-17th century painting season of “Quadratura,” for the massive production of treatises on perspective, as well as for the Baroque experiences and for the tradition in the use of “Festa” ephemeral architectures.

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Management of Educational Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Burcu Toker ◽  
Hamed Rezapouraghdam
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Educational Tourism ◽  
Tourism Experience

Travel has been advocated as a fortifying ground for experiential learning that can engage individuals in numerous experiences through the observation of the destination society and culture. In spite of the vast literature available about the link between tourism and experiential learning outcomes, there are limited studies that gauge educational tourists' familiarity with the intangible cultural heritage of their host communities. Particularly, this study focuses on local food, which is known as a marker of the destination culture and an intangible heritage that plays an inevitable role in almost any tourism experience. Correspondingly, the current exploratory study took an experiential learning approach to understand educational tourists' knowledge about local foods in Cyprus. The findings of the research revealed that educational tourists have very meager knowledge of local foods. The discussion is accordingly provided.

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