The critical study of cultural heritage faces crucial challenges if it is to fully attend to
fundamental shifts in the global political economy and global approaches to heritage …

Ever since the adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage (CSICH) in 2003, indigenous and minority cultural rights have enjoyed increasing …

This article traces “tradition” as a keyword of Western modernity, circulating between general
and scholarly usage and between analytic and ideological applications. After a historical …

CULTURAL HERITAGE 501 burst through the roof and water spouted from red hoses, all of
a sudden the language of heritage rolled off everyone's tongues. Before the flames were …

Looking at examples of cultural practices listed by UNESCO as intangible heritage, this
article appropriates the term “folklorization” from authenticity discourses and argues that the …

A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to
the world. Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft …

UNESCO defines intangible cultural heritage (ICH), in contrast to conservation-oriented
models, as “living” and as playing a dynamic role in contemporary society, thus bringing to …

Since the 2001–2005 Proclamations of Masterpieces and the highly successful 2003
Convention, the UNESCO paradigms of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and safeguarding …

The article discusses the concepts of “folklore” and “cultural heritage” and their historical
development as responses to social transformations. It compares the field of folklore in the …

This article analyses how local, national and international interests are reflected in India's
attempts to protect traditional knowledge through the formation of a Traditional Knowledge …