scholarly journals Honouring Caribbean Folk Cultures: A Personal Reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Glenda-Rose Layne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Sub Saharan

Drawing on my considerable knowledge of the field, this essay examines key components of the intangible cultural heritage of several Caribbean countries. It maps pictures of cultural similarities which can be traced to their roots in traditional sub-Saharan, African cultures. The article demonstrates that oral African cultural traditions derived from a rich cultural heritage are shared by the former Anglo and Francophone, Caribbean colonies. The article suggests that the cultural similarities in the folk culture, help Caribbean people to identify with each other as members of the larger African diaspora. Furthermore, the article also explores possible roles of synergy theatre, digitization and animation as mechanisms to maintain and retain the folk culture, once disseminated exclusively by our oral cultural traditions.

scholarly journals Local Communities’ Perceptions of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Resources in the Mtwara Region of Tanzania

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Festo W. Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaeological Ethnography

This paper examines local communities’ understanding of archaeology and cultural heritage resources. This study was conducted among the Makonde communities of the Mtwara Region of south-eastern Tanzania. The paper presents and critically discusses local communities’ views upon the meaning of archaeology and cultural heritage resources in general. The study used community-based methods by use of interviews, archaeological ethnography and focus group discussions. The results of this study reveal that the local communities in the Mtwara Region are not aware of the meaning of archaeology regardless of the number of archaeological researches that have been conducted in the region. Their understanding of the past is very much confined to intangible cultural traditions which are inherited and practised from one generation to another. Some conclusions are provided which undoubtedly indicate that according to the local communities’ perceptions cultural heritage resources are mainly characterized by intangible cultural practices and beliefs. As this study unveils, in this case tangible heritage resources have less importance to the local communities. This is contrary to the professional or academic conceptions which provide a dual focus on conservation and protection of tangible cultural heritage resources. It is only very recently that we see some studies being conducted focusing on intangible cultural heritage resources.

scholarly journals The recognition of Brazilian samba de roda and reunion maloya as intangible cultural heritage of humanity

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 530-551
Author(s):  
Guillaume Samson ◽  
Carlos Sandroni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reunion Island ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Réunion Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Local Impact

In this essay, we present a comparative analysis of the UNESCO heritage nomination process for two African Diaspora music and dance forms: samba de roda, from the Bahian Recôncavo (a coastal area of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia), and maloya, from Reunion Island (a former French colony in the Indian Ocean, which is now officially an "overseas department of France"). samba de roda, as the Brazilian candidate, was included in the III Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity, in 2005. And maloya, the French candidate, was inscribed onto the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in 2009. Despite a number of formal commonalities between samba de roda and maloya, such as responsorial singing, choreography, and the main musical instrument types, the controversies raised during their respective processes of nomination were quite distinct. The former is regarded as a traditional and less well known style of samba, the musical genre widely recognized as the musical emblem of Brazil. The latter competes with séga-a genre of popular music consolidated in the local media-for the position of chief musical representative of Reunion Island. The disparate symbolic identities attributed to these musical expressions pave the way for a distinct manner of employing the international resources related to the safeguarding of intangible heritage. This suggests that the local impact of the inclusion onto international lists depends as much on the contextual particularities of each candidacy as on central decision-making bodies such as UNESCO.

Part V Regional Approaches, Ch.36 Oceania

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forrest Craig ◽  
Corrin Jennifer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Level ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

This chapter addresses the protection of cultural heritage in Oceania. How the peoples of Oceania relate to their environment is through the prism of heritage. That heritage is holistic, embracing all life, and is both tangible and intangible. Understood through cultural traditions, it defines their cultural identity and remains inseparable from their social, economic, and environmental well-being. The States of Oceania have not engaged with the protection of cultural heritage at an international level, and, while party to the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions, the level of protection is modest, though increasing in significance.

scholarly journals Oriental motivs in Russian fairly tales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
И. Пачаи
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Heroic Epic

Исследование фольклора — важная задача культурологии, антропологии, лингвистики, истории. Вслед за Н.С. Трубецким изучая культурные традиции «русской культурной зоны», можно проследить восточные мотивы в русских сказках, названных Е.М. Мелетским «мифологическими сказками». Этот жанр фольклора хранит архаичные элементы верований и обычаев, важную информацию о нематериальном культурном наследии. В ходе нашего исследования русских волшебных сказок было установлено, что ряд из них может служить источником по обычному праву и героическому эпосу алтайцев и тюрок, а также верованиям урало-алтайского шаманизма. Разрозненные восточные мотивы свидетельствуют о контактах русских с многими другими народами. The study of folklore is an important task of cultural studies, anthropology, linguistics, and history. After N.S. Trubetskoy, studying the cultural traditions of the «Russian cultural zone», one can trace oriental motives in Russian fairy tales named by E.M. Meletsky «mythological tales». This genre of folklore preserves archaic elements of beliefs and customs, as well as important information about intangible cultural heritage. While researching Russian fairy tales, it was found that a number of them can serve as a source for the customary law and the heroic epic of the Altaians and Turks, as well as the beliefs of Ural-Altaic shamanism. Scattered eastern motifs indicate Russian contacts with many other peoples.

Adventism in Ukraine: Attitude to national and cultural traditions, phenomena of the present

1997 ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Moskovchuk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Historical Contribution ◽  
Intellectual Environment

Ukraine is the motherland of not only Ukrainians but also of many national minorities with different cultures and traditions. Ukraine is a Christian country in general, with non-Christian and non-Christian religions and confessional currents, along with traditional churches - Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant - rooted and actively developing non-traditional Ukrainian culture and spirituality. In Ukraine there is a complex process of spiritual revival, especially in the intellectual environment. Many are written and talk about the preservation of cultural heritage. Everywhere, monuments of architecture, art, which testify to the generally recognized historical contribution of Christianity to the development of spirituality and morality of the Ukrainian people, are restored. In our eyes, there are changes in social and religious relations.

DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH CONSERVED EDUCATION, UNDERSTANDING THE IDENTITY OF PHYSICAL CULTURE HERITAGE AND NON-PHYSICAL CULTURE HERITAGE, DEVELOPING LIVELIHOOD AND SUSTAINABLE MULTIDIMENSION POVERTY REDUCTION FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES OF QUANG NINH PROVINCE IN THE CONTEXT OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bui Thuy Phuong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Quang Ninh

In the trend of Industry Revolution 4.0, tourism has been considered as one of the key and key economic sectors of the country and smokeless industry requires sustainable tourism development associated with the conservation and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage values are becoming more and more important and urgent than ever. Author through deeply analysing the context and situation of developing a model linking sustainable tourism with preserving and promoting the specific tangible and intangible cultural heritage values of Quang Ninh province in the previous period thereby proposing a system of appropriate solutions to develop models of cultural tourism, heritage tourism, rural tourism, community tourism...in close association with specific values conservation and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, livelihood development and sustainable multidimensional poverty reduction for ethnic minorities groups in the current Industry Revolution 4.0 trend.

TELLING THE TALE, TELLING THE NATION: TIV TALES, MODERNITY AND THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF NIGERIAN NATIONHOOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tsaaior
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Cultures ◽  
High Literature

Scholarship negotiating African folktales and the entire folkloric tradition in Africa has always been constituted as harbouring fundamental lacks. One of these lacks is the supposed incapacity of oral cultures to produce high literature. However, it is true that folktales and other oral forms in Africa can participate actively in the social, political and cultural process. In this paper, we engage folktales told by the Tiv of central Nigeria and situate them within the dynamic of history, culture, modernity and national construction in Nigeria. The paper adopts a historicist and culturalist perspective in its interpretation of the folktales which were collected in particular Tiv communities. This methodological approach helps to crystallize the historical and cultural lineaments embedded in the people’s experiences, values and worldviews. It also constitutes a contextual background for the understanding of the folktales as they offer informed commentaries on social currents and political contingencies in Nigeria. It argues that though folktales belong to a pre-scientific and pre-industrial dispensation, they are part of the people’s intangible cultural heritage and are capable of distilling powerful statements which negotiate Nigerian modernity and postcolonial condition. The paper underscores the dynamism and functionality of folktales even in an increasingly globalised ethos.

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