Research Catalog

Title

Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage / edited by Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boyell Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Stefano, Michelle L.
• Davis, Peter.
• Corsane, Gerard, 1962-

Description

viii, 275 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Heritage matters series, 1756-4832 ; v. 8

Uniform Title

Heritage matters series ; v. 8.

Subject

• Cultural property > Protection
• Intangible property

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Touching the intangible: an introduction -- The paradoxes of intangible heritage -- Memory, museums and the making of meaning: a Caribbean perspective -- From intangible expression to digital cultural heritage -- Conversation piece: intangible cultural heritage in Sweden -- Africa's rich intangible heritage: managing a continent's diverse resources -- The silence of meanings in conventional approaches to cultural heritage in Jordan: the exclusion of contexts and the marginalisation of the intangible -- Conversation piece: intangible cultural heritage in India -- Reflections on the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France -- Government and intangible heritage in Australia -- Proud to be Dutch? intangible heritage and national identity in the Netherlands -- Intangible cultural heritage in Wales -- Conversation piece: intangible cultural heritage in Botswana.
• The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and its implications for sustaining culture in Nova Scotia -- Acquiring the tools for safeguarding intangible heritage: lessons from an ICH Field School in Lamphun, Thailand -- Intangible threads: curating the living heritage of Dayak ikat weaving -- Conversation piece: intangible cultural heritage in South Africa -- Revitalising Amerindian intangible cultural heritage in Guyana and its value for sustainable tourism -- When ICH takes hold of the local reality in Brazil: notes from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco -- Reconfiguring the framework: adopting an ecomuseological approach for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage -- Conversation piece: intangible cultural heritage in Italy -- Looking to the future: the en-compass project as a way forward for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

ISBN

• 9781843837107
• 1843837102

LCCN

40020914693

OCLC

• ocn794004062
• 794004062
• SCSB-5641550

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries