Intangible Heritage

by Smith; Laurajane

• ISBN13: 9780415473965
• ISBN10: 0415473969
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The development and ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) has seen a significant increase in international debate about not only the nature and value of intangible heritage, but also the meaning and character of heritage more generally. Greeted with enthusiasm by many countries, the convention was also met with wariness and apprehension in much of the West, and the idea of 'intangible heritage' is a relatively unexplored concept in many Western countries.

Author Biography

Laurajane Smith is a Reader in Cultural Heritage Studies and Archaeology at the University of York, UK. She is author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (2004), and editor of Cultural Heritage: Critical Concepts in Media Studies (2007). Natsuko Akagawa is affiliated with the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are intangible heritage, cultural landscape and tourism/management issues related to heritage.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. x
Series general co-editors' foreword	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: reflections on history and concepts	p. 11
From the Proclamation of Masterpieces to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage	p. 13
UNESCO's 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage: the implications of community involvement in 'safeguarding'	p. 45
The authentic illusion: humanity's intangible cultural heritage, the Moroccan experience	p. 74
Intangible heritage as a list: from masterpieces to representation	p. 93
Lessons learned from the ICTM (NGO) evaluation of nominations for the UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, 2001-5	p. 112
The material politics and practices of the intangible	p. 129
Following the length and breadth of the roots: some dimensions of intangible heritage	p. 131
Deeply rooted in the present: making heritage in Brazilian quilombos	p. 151
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the protection and maintenance of the intangible cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples	p. 169
Indigenous curation, museums, and intangible cultural heritage	p. 193
Intangible cultural heritage: global awareness and local interest	p. 209
Reflecting on the intangible	p. 227
A critique of unfeeling heritage	p. 229
Heritage between economy and politics: an assessment from the perspective of cultural anthropology	p. 253
Intangible heritage in the United Kingdom: the dark side of enlightenment?	p. 270
'The envy of the world?': intangible heritage in England	p. 289
Index	p. 303
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