The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780367872076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 528 str.

Michelle Stefano; Peter Davis

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This collection examines the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. The book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with ICH and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from establish

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Introduction Michelle Stefano and Peter Davis

A Decade Later: Critical Reflections on the UNESCO-ICH Paradigm

1. Development of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention: Creating a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake
2. The Examination of Nomination Files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Rieks Smeets and Harriet Deacon
3. A Conversation with Richard Kurin
4. Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Owing a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention Chiara Bortolloto
5. Is Intangible Cultural Heritage an Anthropological Topic? Towards Interdisciplinarity in France Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet
6. The Impact of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on National Policy-making: Developing a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake

Reality Check: The Challenges Facing ICH Safeguarding

7. From the Bottom Up: the Identification and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guyana Aron Mazel, Gerard Corsane, Raquel Thomas and Samantha James
8. Making the Past Pay? Intangible (Cultural) Heritage in South Africa and Mauritius Rosabelle Boswell
9. A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba
10. The Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Tracey L-D Lu
11. Ageing Musically: Tangible Sites of Intangible Cultural Heritage Bradley Hanson
12. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic: Between National and Local Heritage Petr Janeček
13. Damming Ava Mezin:  Challenges to Safeguarding Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey Sarah Elliott
14. Documenting and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Experience in Scotland Alison M

O autorze

Michelle L. Stefano is a Folklife Specialist (Research and Programs) at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. From 2011-2016, Stefano worked for Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the state of Maryland, of which she was its Co-Director from 2015-2016. From 2012-2016, she led the partnership between Maryland Traditions and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies. She co-edited Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (2012) with Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.

Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He is honorary editor of Archives of Natural History, the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History, and a series editor for Heritage Matters. His research interests include the interactions between nature, culture and concepts of place and space. He has published widely on ecomuseums and intangible cultural heritage.