In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein—folklorist and official delegate to
UNESCO—tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic …

In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship
between museums and the new concept of “intangible heritage.” She charts the rise of …

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation
states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is …

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 …

» Nein zum Ensembleschutz «lautete folglich eine programmatische Pres semitteilung des
AStA, der damit auf eine Unterschriftenaktion gegen den vollzogenen Denkmalschutz …

On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rural villages, traditional artefacts, even
atmospheres and experiences are considered heritage. Heritage making not only protects …

In aligning its priorities around the Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO officially
acknowledges the need to reconcile the market and heritage. Yet inscriptions of commercial …

In this article we explore the use of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in the implementation
of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In retracing the …

Communicative interactions in international negotiations on cultural property not only
provide information about the emergence and proliferation of arguments, rhetorics, and …

The 2003 Convention has opened up new scenarios in the representation of heritage as it
defines it in ethnographic rather than topographic terms (Hafstein, 2007, p. 93). By …