Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage
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| Title: | Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage |
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| Description: | Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has recently grown as an analytical construct for documenting and interpreting culture, and as a canonical term to support official concepts of heritage. ICH, while compelling scholars to explore its multiple forms of expressive culture, has become codified through UNESCO, specifically within the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH. This volume explores case studies from Gabon, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and the USA to represent diverse positionalities and voices articulating the complexities, ambiguities and uncertainties within heritage discourses. The chapters illustrate how ICH, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, has become an analytical resource and a proscriptive device for safeguarding, presenting, and interpreting culture to a range of constituents, and will serve as a useful resource in the classroom for a range of fields, as well as for scholars and practitioners. |
| Authors: | Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Editor, Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira, Editor, Gregory Hansen, Editor |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Folklore--Government policy, Intangible property--Protection, Cultural property--Protection |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has recently grown as an analytical construct for documenting and interpreting culture, and as a canonical term to support official concepts of heritage. ICH, while compelling scholars to explore its multiple forms of expressive culture, has become codified through UNESCO, specifically within the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH. This volume explores case studies from Gabon, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and the USA to represent diverse positionalities and voices articulating the complexities, ambiguities and uncertainties within heritage discourses. The chapters illustrate how ICH, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, has become an analytical resource and a proscriptive device for safeguarding, presenting, and interpreting culture to a range of constituents, and will serve as a useful resource in the classroom for a range of fields, as well as for scholars and practitioners. |
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| ISBN: | 9781527581340 9781527581357 |
