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.

scholarly journals Skansen tourist activity in the system of updating the resources of cultural intangible heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan Dychkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of the article consists of the study of the activity of skansen in the intangible cultural heritage system. The methodology is the application of historical, bibliographic, and analytical methods. The scientific novelty of the work is to justify the appropriateness and application of the new concept of tourism activity of scans in the system of intangible cultural heritage. Conclusions. Features of the development of tourism in a post-industrial society influenced the conceptual approaches to the museum topes, which first broadcast chronological meaning, but with the proliferation of skansen museums was beyond the phenomenological limits of time and space. The proliferation of scansions as interactive open-air exhibits became a reflection of changes in the cultural and socio-economic life of modern society. The trends in the development of active consumerism in the social and economic spheres, globalization processes, the growth of cultural and creative industries have identified new areas of activity for museums - skansens, which transformed from museums that showed ethnographic collections in the space of the formation of a new cultural being.

scholarly journals An Imagined Worship: Localities and Creation of Representations in Contemporary Đạo Mẫu

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Camille Senepin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Transformation

The worship of the Four Palace [Tứ Phủ], recently named Đạo Mẫu [Mothers Godessess Religion] can be found in Vietnam and is mainly present in the Northern part of the country. After years of prohibition and stigmatization, this Four Palaces are inscribed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Unesco in December 2016. The worship and its possession ritual [ln đồng] were mostly analysed in Hanoi by Western and Vietnamese researchers. In this article, the author proposeses an analysis of the dynamics of the Four Palaces outside Hanoi, linked to the semantic transformation taking place within the worship. The importance of the locality and how specific places can create singular discourses about the deities, the mediums and the devotees are emphasized in this communication. The author demonstrates that the Đạo Mẫu community is imagined. Nevertheless, the author analyses how the locality can modify the representations and the perceptions of the spirits embodied by the medium, depending on the localisation of the speakers. This paper also highlighted the consequences of the heritagization on the vocabulary and the contemporary practices, and how it can change the ones that are considered unorthodox. In this analysis the author also mentions the significance of those discourses inside the social medias, mostly on Facebook, which is one of the contemporary challenges of the worship.

scholarly journals Food Heritage and the Construction of Territory

Ethnologies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
Laurier Turgeon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Material Conservation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Symbolic Production

In the Western academic tradition, tangible cultural heritage (monuments, buildings, sites and material objects) has generally been considered as a privileged means of constructing places and territory, whereas intangible cultural heritage (oral traditions, arts, crafts, feasts, rituals, song, music, dance) have been associated with the identification of ethnic groups. This article aims to demonstrate that intangible cultural heritage can also be a powerful means of the construction of place, through a case study that shows how the consumption of home-grown agricultural products in Quebec transforms territories into places of heritage. This transformative process is accomplished, first, by the symbolic production and consumption of place. By clearly identifying the place of origin of the product on the label, in writing as well as in image, the act of eating homegrown products entails a displacement of territory from their place of production to their place of incorporation. The distant and the faraway are brought home and made familiar. To further reinforce the domestication of place, the consumer is invited to come and purchase the homegrown product at the place of production and to bring it back home with him. Second, these places areheritagitizedthrough the social production and consumption of time. Homegrown products are expressions of the continuity of place through the material conservation of food (dehydration, salting, freezing, etc.), the process of ageing itself and, more importantly, the transmission of their intangible qualities (traditional knowledge, transmission of receipts, preservation of taste). These practices become specific to a place to the point that they give the product a distinctive taste that is passed on from generation to generation. It is through taste that the memory of people and place is reactivated. The author of the article further suggests that it is these intangible elements which most efficiently and forcefully express the heritage of place.

scholarly journals Social Capital and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Theoretical Concepts of Departure and the Potential of Further Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Daniel Drápala
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Environment ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

AbstractThis study discusses the use of the social capital concept in relation to the elements of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and their safeguarding. The author proceeds from theoretical concepts which were employed by some researchers outside ethnological research (P. Bourdieu, Y. F. Fukuyama, R. D. Putnam and others) in the last decades. He highlights one of the basic principles of social capital, which consists of sharing the real and the potential sources, knowledge, and information, which an individual or a group of persons acquire through more or less institutionalized relations. Based on the experience from the national environment (Czech Republic) and an international organization (UNESCO) he contemplates to which extent it is possible to apply the theoretical foundations of social capital on the ICH, where the principle of sharing of and mutual respect to cultural elements is one of the basic theses. The discussion about the social capital concept in social sciences has until now shown how wide the spectrum of possible perspectives is. There is not the only possible determinant interpretation and field. The chosen theme, the methodology, and the discipline’s tradition contribute to different territorial and conceptual adaptations of social capital, which, however, also generates a potential of using this concept in the form of transdisciplinary research. This can be used, in the future, for the study of intangible cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Immaterial cultural heritage and a sense of place in film-based art education: A case study of a documentary film project with secondary school children as part of Cine en curso Chile

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-137
Author(s):  
Felipe Borim Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social

The following article describes the process of a documentary filmmaking programme at a secondary school in Chile, which encourages students to engage with a sense of place and intangible cultural heritage. Run by Gaticine – Centro de desarrollo social del cine (Centre for the Social Development of Cinema) in partnership with A Bao A Qu, a non-profit organization based in Barcelona, the programme assists students in discovering and analysing documentary films from different times and cultures over the course of a year, while performing practical filmmaking inside and outside the school. At the end, a short film project is developed that is premiered in a local cinema. This essay provides a brief overview of the principles and methodology of the Cinema en curs programme, before offering a socio-educational consideration of the school in which it was developed and, finally, an analysis of the project’s delivery.

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.

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