Intangible Cultural Heritage
Intangible Interpretation?
UNESCO
Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage
Intangible cultural heritage
• The practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage.
Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity.
Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage
• Performing arts• Social practices, rituals and festive events• Knowledge and practices concerning nature
and the universe• Traditional craftsmanship
• Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage
• Performing arts• Social practices, rituals and
festive events• Knowledge and practices
concerning nature and the universe
• Traditional craftsmanship
From the representative list:
• Cultural space of Jmaa el-Fna Square
Language dance and music of the Garifuna
Processional giants and dragons of Belgium and France
Olonkho, Yakut heroic epos
Tango
Gastronomic meal of the French
Mediterranean Diet
King Arthur
Robin Hood
Solsbury Hill, Bath
Maid Marian
Anne Boleyn
Intangible cultural heritage
• The practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage.