scholarly journals The Main Activities of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
V. Pilkevych
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Cultural Component

The article describes the main activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The main documents (conventions, recommendations, declarations) on which the work of the Organization is based are covered. It is determined that the cultural component of the work of UNESCO consists of topical issues: the dialogue of cultures, the preservation of cultural heritage, the protection of intangible cultural heritage. It was found that education has a priority place in the activities of the Organization, special attention was paid to the main goals of Education for All. The important programs in the scientific sphere were characterized: “Man and the Biosphere”, the International Hydrological Program, etc. The role of such composite activities of UNESCO as communication and information in the modern world is  emphasized. The outlook for the activities of UNESCO has been identified and the importance of the active cooperation of the internationalcommunity in preserving peace has been pointed out.

scholarly journals Angklung Tradisional Sunda: Intangible, Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Penerapannya dan Pengkontribusiannya Terhadap Kelahiran Angklung Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asep Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Frame Bound ◽  
Diatonic Scale

Angklung consists of two to four bamboo tubes suspended in a bamboo frame, bound with rattan cords. The tubes will produce certain notes when the frame is shaken or tapped. Each angklung produces a single note or chord, so several players must collaborate in order to play melodies. Traditional Angklungs use the pentatonic scale, but in 1938 musician Daeng Soetigna introduced Angklungs using the diatonic scale, known as angklung padaeng. Angklung is closely related to traditional customs, arts and cultural identity in Indonesia, played during ceremonies such as rice planting and harvest. Angklung education is passed down orally from generation to generation, and increasingly in educational institutions (Prodi Angklung and Musik Bambu ISBI Bandung. Angklung has been included in the UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization) list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. This paper discusses the interesting things about the angklung. Especially the process of traditional angklung that developed into the modern angklung and then both has been worldwide as Indonesian culture heritage.

scholarly journals “Fractured Resemblances”: Contested Multinational Heritage and Soft Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-123
Author(s):  
Sarah Sargent
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Single State

Abstract:Intangible cultural heritage elements are shared across state borders. In many instances, states join in multinational nominations to inscribe the heritage element in a way that reflects this reality. But, at times, states are unwilling or unable to cooperate in a mutual nomination that reflects the shared nature of the heritage element. The consequence of this is that heritage elements can then be nominated by individual states without any reflection of the multinational or cross-border nature of the element; thus leaving the heritage elements shorn of this aspect of their nature. The current international heritage legal regime, through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, does not adequately acknowledge or address this problem. This article, through a case study of the successful nomination by Azerbaijan of the horseback game of chovqan, examines the causes and consequences of these “fractured resemblances.” It analyzes the links between cultural heritage, conflict, and the use of heritage as a form of soft power. It focuses on the use of single-state inscription as a soft-power means of obtaining international prestige and support and the resultant effects on shared cultural heritage elements. From this, suggestions for changes to international heritage laws for the inscription of cultural heritage are suggested to accommodate the reality of the connection between cultural heritage, conflict, and power and to avoid the occurrence of “fractured resemblances” of heritage shared across state lines.

scholarly journals «Education for All» in UNESCO’S Activities

2018 ◽  
pp. 176-186
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Pilkevych
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Education For All ◽  
High Importance ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
World Report ◽  
The Right

The activities of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the educational sphere have been researched. The article as well focuses on the important program «Education for All». At the World Education Forum (Dakar, 2000), the governments pledged to achieve «Education for All» and identified six goals to be met by 2015. Threfore the study examines these goals. Special attention has been paid to the results of this program. According to the World Report on Monitoring «Education for All», the statistics has been presented to achieve the goals set. The study outlines the problems of this sphere that need to be solved in the future. It is emphasized that a number of goals, namely the right of all to education, gender equality, improvement of the education system, etc. are extremely important. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization organizes different conferences, forums for solution problems of education, gives important recommendation for improvements educational sphere. The views of the General Directors of UNESCO on the role of education in UNESCO’s activities, on implementation of the provisions of the «Education for All» have been given. The author as well emphasizes on the high importance of educational sphere of the activities of UNESCO. In accordance with the new declaration, the study outlines the perspective of educational sphere of UNESCO’s activities (from 2015 to 2030).

scholarly journals Agricultura y Alimentación en el México Prehispánico y siglo XVI/Agriculture and Food in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the 16th Century.

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-81
Author(s):  
Carlos Arturo Giordano Sánchez Verín
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Agriculture And Food

El inicio de la agricultura en el Continente Americano inició en lo que actualmente se conoce como México. A partir de la gran diversidad geográfica fueron surgiendo diferentes productos y una especialización en su siembra y cuidados, a fin de obtener el mejor rendimiento de los mismos. Fue necesario conocer el clima, las calidades de la tierra y  el tiempo a fin de establecer los ciclos agrícolas que dieron como resiltado una gran variedad de plantas que representaron la base de la alimentación de los pueblos mesoamericanos.La llamada Conquista de México trajo consigo nuevos métodos agrícolas, herramientas, animales de tiro y carga y, por supuesto, una gran cantidad de plantas que muy pronto se adaptaron a la geografía de la Nueva España. ABSTRACTThe emergence of agriculture in Mexico was a factor of great relevance, which allowed the development of Mesoamerican cultures more than three thousand years of history. The geographical location of the different ethnic groups that inhabited this region allowed the cultivation of a wide variety of plants, such as corn, beans, pumpkin and chili, basic products in the Mesoamerican diet, as well as other products were developed according to the geographic characteristics and climatological, such as cocoa, from which chocolate is obtained, and even vanilla, being appreciated all over the world. Those original products were mixed with those brought by Europeans in the sixteenth century and this gave rise to Mexican cuisine, which in 2010 was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).Key words: Mesoamerican cultures, Mexican gastronomy, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Heritage, Land, Labor, and Competing Claims for Afro-Colombian Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fernanda Escallón
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Cultural Cohesion

Abstract:This article examines the different meanings that rights to land and culture hold in San Basilio de Palenque, an Afro-Colombian community whose “cultural space” was declared by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2005. I investigate how the language of rights—both communal and individual—operates simultaneously at various registers and is strategically put to work in distinct political spheres. Drawing from ethnographic field research conducted between 2009 and 2013, I argue that while communal rights are invoked to garner recognition from state and transnational organizations like UNESCO, individual rights, conceived as exclusive prerogatives, serve to mark hierarchical distinctions between community members. I examine the paradoxical coexistence of two contradictory claims: one of cultural cohesion and another of social hierarchy. I conclude by questioning how a more nuanced examination of rights discourses in Palenque might contribute to understanding the multiple meanings of rights, not simply across time or space but also in relation to their perceived strategic purpose.

scholarly journals ‘Pra homem, menino e mulher’? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 691-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Owen ◽  
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian bodily discipline that has now become a global phenomenon. In 2014 the cultural significance of capoeira was recognized on the world stage when it was awarded the special protected status of an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. In the application to this organisation, and in wider advertising material and practitioner literature, capoeira is celebrated as a practice that promotes social cohesion, inclusivity, integration, racial equality and resistance to all forms of oppression. This paper seeks to problematize this inclusive discourse, exploring the extent to which it is both supported and contradicted in the gendered discourses and practices of specific capoeira groups in Europe. Drawing upon ethnographic data, produced through two sets of ethnographic research and the researchers’ 24 years of combined experience as capoeira players, this paper documents the complex and contradictory contexts in which discourses and practices of gender inclusivity are at once promoted and undermined.

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