Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
907.2
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Archaeology
;
Humanities
;
Social sciences
Abstract:
Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect intangible heritage, including the following: oral traditions and expressions, including language, performing arts (such as traditional music, dance, and theater), social practices, rituals, and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and traditional craftsmanship. Since this convention was adopted, scholars and preservationists have struggled with how to best approach intangible heritage. This volume specifically focuses on embodied intangible heritage, or the human body as a vehicle for memory, movement, and sound. The contributors to this work examine ritual and artistic movement, theater, music, oral literature, as well as the role of the internet in cultural transmission. Globalization and particularly the internet, has a complex effect on the transmission of intangible heritage: while music, dance, and other expressions are now shared easily, the performances often lack context and may be shared with a group that does not fully understand what they are seeing or hearing. This volume draws on case studies from around the world to examine the problems and possibilities of implementing the new UNESCO convention. The findings in this volume will be vital to both professionals and academics in anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, architecture, and anyone else who deals with issues of cultural heritage and preservation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Intangible Heritage Embodied; Preface; Contents; Contributors; From Tangible to Intangible Heritage; The Development of Intangibility as a Concept; Charters, Conventions, and Declarations Cited (Listed by Short and Full Name, Date, Promulgating Organization, Website); References; The Heritage of Kunqu: Preserving Music and Theater Traditions in China; Kunqu as Vocal Art; Kunqu's Association with Theater; Patron, Garden, and Kunqu; The Taiping Uprising and the Modern Kunqu Actors School; Kunqu Under Communism; Kunqu After UNESCO; Conclusion; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Partition Memories: The Hidden HealerThe Project: From Myth to History to Remembering to Healing; Four Previously Unpublished Stories; Ahmed Hayat Kalyar About Sargodha; Maqbool Elahi of Ropar, East Punjab; Mohammed Saeed Awan of Hoshiarpur, East Punjab; Dawood Pervaiz ''From He Knows Not Where''; Four Stories Selected from The Tribune; Chaudhry Muhammad Hayat of Gujrat tehsil; Abdur Rab Malik of Quetta, Balochistan; Prem Pandhi, ''Tennis Star''; Sughra Rasheed About Jalandhar (Jullundur); The Power of Stories; Conclusions; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Gardens and Landscapes: At the Hinge of Tangible and Intangible HeritageAn Example of Garden Conservation in China; Defining the Historic Garden; The Garden Groves of the Braj; Gardens of Slave Descendants in Guadeloupe; Municipal Parks Bring Civility and Civilization to British Cities; The Dynamics of ''Gardens and Landscapes'' Culture in Japan; The Re-creation of a Garden at Koga; The Otagawa Embankment Project in Hiroshima; Conclusion; Notes; References; Preserving the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India; Champaner-Pavagadh: Past and Present
Description / Table of Contents:
Cultural LandscapeArchitectural Forms and Ornamentation; Water Intelligence; Vision and Movement; Conservation Approaches; Notes; References; Governance and Conservation of the Rapaz Khipu Patrimony; The Village of Rapaz and the Rapaz Research Project; The Patrimonial Buildings and Their Contents; The Agenda of Conservation; Conserving the Precinct Collaboratively; The Patrimony at Night: Ritual Use; The Patrimony by Day: Tourism and Other Outward-Facing Uses; Conclusions: A Moving Equilibrium; References; Geographies of Memory and Identity in Oceania
Description / Table of Contents:
Rural-Urban Migration: Futuna, Vanuatu to Port VilaA Cosmological Order in the Homeland; A Cosmological Order in Homeland Narratives; Urban Landscapes, Practices, and Ideologies; Intangible Heritage in Transforming Contexts; Conclusions; Notes; References; Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois; Aspects of Globalization and Attempted Erasure; Histories of Adversity and Success; Concepts of Heritage and the Paradox of Culture; Conclusion; References; Folk Epigraphy at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, and Beyond; Folk Assemblages
Description / Table of Contents:
Folk Epigraphy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-0072-2
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