Abstract
The following paper explores how intangible cultural knowledge is represented in the cultural record as information made known through physical objects. It seeks to prove that the preservation of intangible knowledge requires the continued practice of that knowledge as well as the creation of physical information. I believe that a study of European martial arts will demonstrate this. This paper will cover the history of historical European martial arts manuscripts in the early medieval period, relevant advances in manuscript making in the late medieval period, and the current revitalization of historical European martial arts. The paper will describe how communities of practitioners dedicated to recording guidelines for what can only be realized in practice and which is intangible knowledge, employ new technologies, ideas and metadata in creating a cultural record.
Highlights
The following paper explores how intangible cultural knowledge is represented in the cultural record as information made known through physical objects
The second is that technological advances open new opportunities to have more accurate methods of documenting the intangible but, in order to take advantage of new technologies, there would have to be a group of people knowledgeable enough to create new “information-asthing.”. We can see this by evaluating the interpretation, preservation and practice of historical European martial art manuscripts and the modern practice of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)
Throughout this paper, historical European martial arts will refer to the techniques and practice of the medieval fencing masters and their pupils, while the abbreviation HEMA will refer to the modern day practice of those techniques
Summary
The following paper explores how intangible cultural knowledge is represented in the cultural record as information made known through physical objects. The example of HEMA demonstrates that sometimes, in order to extract knowledge from the iJournal, Vol 5, No 1, Fall 2019 cultural record, information-as-thing for intangible knowledge cannot be left entirely in the hands of the academic community.
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