Abstract

Emphasizing its museum-focused sub-project, this report describes the second phase of the China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2013-2016). Supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, the larger project links these two national scholarly societies in a program of professional exchanges, scholarly meetings, and joint inquiry around issues of intangible cultural heritage policy and practice. The museum sub-project has included joint exhibition development work, travel to local communities in the United States and in Southwest China, and other collaborative initiatives. This report describes the project's history, funding, outcomes, and some lessons learned.

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  • Emphasizing its museum-focused sub-project, this report describes the second phase of the China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2013-2016)

  • Keywords are derived from the American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus, a standard nomenclature for the ethnographic disciplines.]

  • In 2013, the Luce Foundation awarded American Folklore Society (AFS) a second three-year grant to take up a new phase of this partnership. This project report covers the period of 2013 to 2016. It was during this phase of the project that it took up additional work focused on ethnographic museums and their place on the intangible cultural heritage landscapes of China and the United States

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Emphasizing its museum-focused sub-project, this report describes the second phase of the China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2013-2016). In 2007, the American Folklore Society (AFS) and the China Folklore Society (CFS) began collaborating on what has become a thirteen-year partnership to build more and better connections among folklorists and folklore studies institutions in both countries.

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