UNESCO on the ground local perspectives on intangible cultural heritage /

UNESCO on the ground local perspectives on intangible cultural heritage /

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For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected...

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Other Authors: Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965- (Editor), Gilman, Lisa, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Encounters--explorations in folklore and ethnomusicology.
Subjects:
Unesco.
Cultural property.
Intangible property.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • UNESCO on the Ground / Michael Dylan Foster
  • Local studies
  • 1. Voices on the ground: Kutiyattam, UNESCO, and the heritage of humanity / Leah Lowthorp
  • 2. The economic imperative of UNESCO recognition : a South Korean shamanic ritual / Kyoim Yun
  • 3. Demonic or cultural treasure? Local perspectives on Vimbuza, intangible cultural heritage, and UNESCO in Malawi / Lisa Gilman
  • 4. Imagined UNESCOs : interpreting intangible cultural heritage on a Japanese island / Michael Dylan Foster
  • 5. Macedonia, UNESCO, and intangible cultural heritage : the challenging fate of Teškoto / Carol Silverman
  • 6. Shifting actors and power relations : contentious local responses to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in contemporary China / Ziying You
  • Critical discussion
  • 7. Understanding UNESCO : a complex organization with many parts and many actors / Anthony Seeger
  • 8. Learning to live with ICH : diagnosis and treatment / Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
  • 9. From cultural forms to policy objects : comparison in scholarship and policy / Dorothy Noyes.

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