This paper looks at the transformative nature of intangible cultural heritage and its co-relation to the evolution of a community. In order to do so the paper looks at the caste labour of *Naga Kalam Pulluvan Pattu* which is a form of *Kalamezhuth Pattu* where *Kala* means art or picture...
The museum is the ideal partner institution for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). It preserves, presents, and explains the relevant tools and equipment, as well as the respective items produced. At the same time, the museum can also make past epochs tangible through demonstrations and participative events which “re-enact” intangible...
In 2022, the practice of Modern Dance in Germany was added to UNESCO’s International Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The following article traces the impulses and developments of this practice, emphasising its main characteristics and social functions. In addition, it examines the problems of reconciling the safeguarding of traditional knowledge...
The case study of the Greek island of Samos, highlights the famous wine making and the grape vines of the island as elements of intangible cultural heritage that continue the traditional way of cultivating wine in drystone areas all over the island and producing wine, procedures that have been included...
The case study of the area of Pieria, may illustrate the presence of religious traditions and the role of the church and monks, but also the inclusion and incorporation of traditions in the everyday life of the peoples community. These traditions may reinforce elements of intangible cultural heritage of the...
This case study discusses intangible heritage. The case study of the Greek island of Poros, may illustrate the presence of religious traditions and the role of volunteers -such as the Women’s cultural association Poriotissa-, associations that reinforce elements of intangible cultural heritage of the area. This may take place via...
This article offers insights into the evolving awareness of the role of intangible cultural heritage in addressing contemporary and planetary challenges. It focuses on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (hereinafter ‘the Convention’), a landmark UNESCO international standard-setting instrument that celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2023....
The article highlights selected relationships between the two currently best-known UNESCO heritage conventions, the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Although the latter was modelled on the former—with the important intermediate step of the UNESCO programme for Proclamation of the...
Purpose – Food has entered commerce as an intangible cultural heritage (ICH) because consumers want authentic food and memorable consumption experiences.
So far little attention has been paid to the territorial aspects of cultural heritage, dispersion patterns and clustering processes nor to the changes induced by tourism on the physical, economic and social environment. S