Preservation Of Intangible Heritage Research Articles

Hermeneutics of Memory for Tourist Promotion: An Upcycling Process of Spanish Civil War Air Raid Shelters

This study delves into the transformative role of air-raid shelters from the Spanish Civil War in Alicante, Spain, highlighting their significance in the recovery and preservation of intangible heritage. Through a detailed hermeneutic analysis based on interviews and existing research, the investigation explores the shelters’ contribution to cultural identity, memory, and sustainable urban development. It reveals how the hermeneutics of memory, applied via a rigorous scientific approach, serves as a vital tool for justifying, rehabilitating, and planning these historical sites for tourism aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals. The rehabilitation of these shelters not only acts as a conservation effort but also as a means to promote cultural tourism enhancing Alicante’s cultural and tourist offerings. The study underscores the shelters’ dual role as educational resources and tourist attractions, facilitating a deeper understanding and connection with the past, and fostering community development and sustainability.

SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PRIMER TO THE INTERCULTURAL GARDEN)

This article represents the historical record of the stages of the third management of the intercultural didactic garden (medicinal and sensory) in a courtyard used by the Homeopathy Service, located in the 7th Infirmary of the Hospital Geral Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, whose elaboration was inter - transdisciplinary and intersectoral, voluntary and cooperative, with the purpose of cultural appreciation and intercultural and interethnic experience, as a way of promoting well-being and mental health through the preservation of intangible heritage, which is the knowledge of the people. From this stage completed in primary care, scientific initiations were carried out with the plant elements of this garden, ranging from in situ morphological knowledge to the pharmaceutical process using the Hahnemannian method of multiple bottles, to investigate circumscribed environmental issues. For the current stage, Annona muricata (Soursop) used by Traditional Knowledge, was selected based on a bibliographical review and the book by Benoit Jules Mure (1894), doctor and naturalist, who brought Homeopathic Medicine to Brazil at that time, caring for members and families of communities traditional ethnicities and indigenous peoples who were enslaved or left to fend for themselves. Fruit from the garden that bears his name has broad potential for scientific investigation, thus contributing to the expansion of perception regarding cultural diversity and biodiversity, helping to raise awareness of ethical behavior towards the environment (Environmental Ethics).

THE RESILIENCE OF MALAY SILVER CRAFT DESIGN: SUSTAINING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION

This research paper investigates the traditional Malay silver craft that has existed for two centuries, reflecting the community's culture and heritage. The Srivijaya Kingdom and British colonial rule historically influenced this Malay culture's silver craft, encapsulating beliefs, dreams, and resilience. Originating in Kelantan, Malaysia, the Malay silver craft industry flourished, but recent studies reveal its decline and potential extinction. This paper's primary objective is to comprehensively identify and propose strategies for integrating sustainable practices of silver craft, aligning with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on sustainable industrialization and cultural heritage preservation. The research seeks to preserve and revitalize the craft industry for community benefit, emphasizing its socio-economic impact, potential for job creation, income generation, tourism, and intangible heritage preservation. The paper conducts a literature review, visual research, and focus group discussions employing anthropology, art history, and community development. This research emphasizes the importance of sustaining cultural heritage, fostering community resilience, and empowerment. Influenced by their cultural beliefs, environment, looking at nature, and the natural world, the fine silver craft undergoes artistic expression, subsequently fostering social cohesion and interaction. Following the quadruple helix concept, the Malay silver craft industry revival engaged through collaboration among local artisans, government agencies, community organizations, and academicians. By utilizing thematic analysis based on focus group discussion, this research thoroughly analyses the sustainability of the Malay silver craft domain, interpreting key thematic codes that underpin its ecological and socio-cultural significance within the framework of local craft in Malaysia.

Community Archive as a Platform for Development and Preservation of Intangible Heritage—the Community Archives Project

BG archives have initiated the Community Archive Project, the objective being to create communal archives that will prepare the material for researching Israeli development towns and Bedouin communities from the bottom – up, fully digital and accessible online. Bedouin towns and development towns are home to thousands of Israelis, and their role in the historical development of the state of Israel is clear. That said, their particular stories have yet to be told, mainly due to the absence of accessible documentation. This ―silence of the archive‖, as it is called in archival studies, inhibits the development of effective research and creates the false impression that ―what you see is what you have‖. Because of the ―silence of the archives,‖ these communities have been portrayed in a similarly passive fashion in public discourse and scholarly research. Their natural growth and development, propelled by internal dynamics as organic communities with ―bottom up‖ growth, has, until now, received little attention from researchers. This project aims to address this gap and to enrich the historical record by including the archival collections of the development towns themselves. The project leans on the theoretical framework and moral motivation of the Canadian concept of Community Archive. We acknowledge that the fundamental challenge for this project is to create authentic archives that will reconstruct the silence of the archive. This paper discusses the meaning of this core challenge, the solutions we formulated and the significant impact this project is expected to have on the thriving field of Israel studies.

Collaborative Design in Kinetic Performance: Safeguarding the Uilleann Pipes through Inertial Motion Capture

This paper explores the possibilities of motion capture as a tool to preserve and study Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) practices such as playing instruments. The Uilleann pipes are both an instrument and a culture with a now strong community following and recovering after being almost extinguished several times in Ireland. The playing and making of the Uilleann pipes was incorporated into the Representative list of the UNESCO Convention of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017. This experience was performed in collaboration with several Uillean pipe players who contributed at every stage of the performance recording with comments and orientation. Some of these comments were also later formally kept as interviews to the players. The technical capture of the movements was done using a Rokoko Smart suit and paired Smart gloves which the piper wears for the performance. The resulting motion file was then cleaned and redirected to Blender 3D, a community made software package that allows the incorporation of a renderable avatar that helps for the dissemination of the performance. This recording process, called Inertial system, allows performers to perform almost anywhere and to capture the movements of the players with good accuracy. This process of recording and collaboration with the community is a cost-effective solution that can be of particular interest for scholars as well as for cultural communities wishing to archive these practices quickly. This design of technology and collaborative recording allows for a round experience that combined the detail of the technically enhanced recording with the interpretive nuance of the player that enriches the capturing process with mentions to how it is ‘relatively’ comfortable for the player and how efficient it is in terms of resulting detail. This collaboratively designed experience also provides the three aspects of intangible heritage preservation: supports the community -who can learn from the resulting animation; helps situating the practice within the cultural practice of the community-as they are part of the process; and helps materialise the output permitting its digital cataloguing, archival, and storage.

Involvement Women in Intangible Heritage Preservation Nubian Woman Study Case

مشارکة النساء في الحفاظ على التراث غير المادي يتناول هذا البحث أهمية إشراک المرأة في عملية الحفاظ على التراث غير المادي،حيث تنقل المرأة العديد من أشکال التراث الثقافي غير المادي وتحافظ عليها وتفسرها وکذلک تعيد انتاجها بين الأجيال من خلال عملية تربية الأطفال وممارستها للأنشطة المختلفة في الحياة اليومية. کذلک تعتبر المرأة الحافظ والحارس الأساسي للکثير من المعارف التقليدية المتعلقة بالتراث غير المادي في معظم المجتمعات مثل انتاج الحرف اليدوية، وممارسة الفنون المتنوعة، ومعرفة اسرار الطب الشعبي، ولا يقتصر الأمر على الحفاظ على أسرار هذه الممارسات التقليدية ونقلها، بل يبتکرون أيضا في تطوير هذه الممارسات لتناسب متطلبات جميع العصر الحديث مع الحفاظ على الأصالة. وقد أولت منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة اليونسکو اهتمام خاص من خلال برامجها واتفاقياتها على دور النساء کمنتجات وحافظات وناقلات ومفسرات للتراث غير المادي . کذلک من الضروري الاهتمام بمجالات التراث الغير مادي التي تشارک فيها المرأة والتأکيد على الاهتمام بتلک المجالات حيث إن تجاهلها له عواقب وخيمة على الممارسات الثقافية المميزة للمجتمعات، خاصة مع تأثير العولمة واختفاء العديد من الممارسات التقليدية. وقد أکدت نتائج الدراسة الميدانية التي أجريت في عام 2017 بثلاث قرى نوبية بمحافظة أسوان على وعي النساء بالنوبة بمفهوم التراث وبأدوارهن في الحفاظ عليه وحرصهن على تعليمه لأطفالهن، والاکثر من ذلک اقترحن العديد من الافکار عن کيفية مشارکتهن في حفظ التراث الذي يعبر عن هويتهن الثقافية.

Íhé Ńkètá and Òkè: concepts and practice of indigenous cultural heritage management in the Igbo cultural area of south-eastern Nigeria

PurposeThis study explored an alternative understanding of heritage through the lens of the Igbo cultural group in Nigeria. It used the Igbo concept of “Ihe Nketa” or “Oke” to examine the complex relationship between indigeneity, attachment and sustainability in the context of heritage management and conservation.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach was used, and ethnographic methods of data collection that include interviews and focus-group discussions (FGD) applied. The interview participants included village chiefs and the elderly (men and women), and the FGD comprised village elders (men and women) and youths. The interview guide contained demographic questions to determine age and occupation, followed by interactive open-ended questions stemming from the study's objectives. The interviews were conducted in the language most preferred by the respondents such as the Igbo language, Nigerian Pidgin English and the English language. The evidence generated was thematically analysed in a descriptive and interpretive manner.FindingsThe study found that while the Igbo understanding of heritage have related meaning with the definitions offered by the United Nations, their approach to heritage conservation takes a different turn through the concepts of “Ihe Nketa” or “Oke,” which recognises the ephemerality of tangible heritage resources with particular focus on the preservation of intangible heritage–knowledge over objects. The Igbo approach describes the framework for the acquisition, use and transfer of heritage resources in the Igbo society.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the understanding of the concept of heritage through the lens of the Igbo of Nigeria. Against the centralised national management approach to heritage, this paper argues that achieving sustainable heritage management in a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria requires the recognition of the principles that conserve(d) and manage(d) heritage among the indigenous/local peoples.

An Analysis on the System of Transmission and Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Originated from the North Korean Region in South Korea

An Analysis on the System of Transmission and Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Originated from the North Korean Region in South Korea

Safeguarding intangible heritage through edutainment in China’s creative urban environments

ABSTRACT This article critically examines the role of edutainment – the combination of educational and entertainment activities – in intangible heritage preservation. Drawing upon fieldwork in southwest China’s Guizhou province, the article focuses on a cultural park that packages traditional ethnic practices into cultural products and leisure experiences for public participation and display. I consider this site as an example of a new form of hybrid cultural venue that shares similarities with earlier models of theme parks and museums, but also differs from them in important ways. This article discusses the potentials and the limitations of using interactive and experiential elements for facilitating the dynamic safeguarding of intangible heritage in creative urban environments. I argue that edutainment offers new learning opportunities to a public audience and to younger generations, but it inevitably entails transformations of traditional cultural forms and practices. Edutainment, in this context, becomes a strategic tool to preserve traditional skills and knowledge while promoting local cultures.

An Ontological Approach for Creating a Brassware Craft Knowledge Base

Terengganu brassware is a local craft product with high artistic value and traditional craftsmanship that involves a lot of creativity and elaborate artistry. This cultural heritage is in danger of disappearing because the current younger generation lacks interest, creativity and artistic skills to continue the craftsmanship. Therefore, gathering detailed knowledge of the craft from ageing practitioners can preserve the heritage. This article reports the study on brassware intangible heritage knowledge base development using an ontological approach. The ontology modelling used Ontology Development 101. Content validation result by experts found that the brassware ontology is complete, consistent, concise, precise and clear. Evaluation results show that the experts agreed on content representation (mean ≥3.80), and the ontology meets all the quality criteria (mean ≥4.03). The brassware craft ontology contributes to the intangible heritage preservation effort for one of the almost extinct local culture and practices. This intangible heritage knowledge base can be applied for the development of semantic search, mobile and gaming applications to attract and disseminate heritage information to young people. Additionally, the ontological design can serve as a guide for the design and development of a knowledge base for other types of heritage.

MULTILINGUALISM IN BENIN. SOME REFLECTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION

The article provides an overview of the state of the Bariba language on the Replublic of Benin (West Africa) and reflects on the urgent need to make effective the wishes of implementing a language policy that promotes a rigurous multilingual education of quality that helps preserve native languages. Through some visits to local schools of the Beninese Departments of Borgou and Alibori and through the language autobiographies of significant people from the Bariba language community of those departments, we highlight five reflections that underline the importance of multilingualism and point out the multilingual school as a key element for the preservation of intangible heritage, for social development and for achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sm-2019-0016

Multilingualism in Benin. Some Reflections from the Perspective of Sustainable Development and Multilingual Education

Summary The article provides an overview of the state of the Bariba language on the Replublic of Benin (West Africa) and reflects on the urgent need to make effective the wishes of implementing a language policy that promotes a rigurous multilingual education of quality that helps preserve native languages. Through some visits to local schools of the Beninese Departments of Borgou and Alibori and through the language autobiographies of significant people from the Bariba language community of those departments, we highlight five reflections that underline the importance of multilingualism and point out the multilingual school as a key element for the preservation of intangible heritage, for social development and for achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

Reflection of the Idea of Conservation of the Intangible Heritage in the Processes of Chromatic Keypad of the Harmonics

The main lines of the evolutionary development of harmonics keyboards are revealed. The varieties of diatonic and chromatic harmonics during their historical formation in the period from 1829 to the present. Disclosed artistic and performance properties of instruments, most effectively meeting the needs of various genres of intangible musical heritage. The principles of the relationship between improvements in tool design and modern genres, ensuring the preservation and growth of folk and academic traditions. New expressive properties of modern harmonics providing sustainable perspectives for tools in processes preservation of intangible heritage. Keywords: Evolution, Diatonic Keyboards, Chromatic Keyboards, Artistic and Expressive Properties of Harmonics, Intangible Heritage, Traditional Musical Genres, Life of Instruments, Push-Button Accordions, Keyboard Accordions, Kravtsov System Accordions

International Archives and National Music Competitions: The Preservation of an “Endangered” Musical Heritage in the Saharawi Refugee Camps (Southwest Algeria)

The preservation of cultural practices within the framework of the UNESCO ICH lists has been tied to the protection of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and community identity. Moreover, it is inextricably linked to questions of national identity, especially given that submissions are made on an (internationally recognised) nation-state basis. This becomes problematic in the case of long-standing unrecognised states, such as the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). The protracted refugee status of the Saharawi people—based in refugee camps in the south-western Algerian desert since Morocco occupied their homeland Western Sahara in 1975—is a major obstacle in their struggle for independence. Their recent history of war, occupation, exile and cultural appropriation has threatened the survival of Saharawi musical and poetic practices, as well as restricting their access to international bodies that could provide cultural safeguarding assistance.To address this situation, the Saharawi cultural authorities have collaborated with international organisations (e.g. the Autonomous University of Madrid and the British Library) to create archives of Saharawi poetry and music. In addition, every year they organise large festivals to showcase traditional culture, featuring musical competitions especially aimed at youth. To prepare for these competitions, young people—who have gradually become less aware of the Saharawi Bedouin way of life before exile—are assisted by national musicians and encouraged to research their own traditional music by establishing dialogues with the elders. So far, these measures have had significant short-term impact on the local population, engaging the youth in anecdotal research on their traditional culture; however, due to the Saharawi government’s chronic lack of resources, it has been impossible both to sustain such measures in the long term and to achieve international recognition.Focusing on two case studies—1) the British Library preservation project “Portraits of Saharawi Music” and 2) a music competition during the Saharawi national celebrations in February 2014—this article explores the efforts of the SADR to safeguard their musical heritage using a mix of material (recorded archives) and non-material (oral transmission) strategies. It also analyses the ways in which socio-political interests such as the reinforcement of a self-built national identity have encouraged the need to keep particular styles (e.g. traditional/national music) alive under the label of intangible heritage preservation.

Away From Place: Expanding Intangible Cultural Resource Protections Under U.S. and International Law

University of Kentucky historic preservation professor, Emily Bergeron, addresses how laws and legal frameworks regulating the preservation of intangible heritage lag well behind those related to historic places and objects. Bergeron explores U.S. and international conventions and accords that guide the preservation of intangible heritage, where they stop short or can be improved. Bergeron also acknowledges the Eurocentric nature of historic preservation guidelines, noting that international law is beginning to connect intangible heritage preservation with indigenous communities, and in doing so, those communities are being positioned to have agency over their heritage.

TALENT MANAGEMENT: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TOWARDS HERITAGE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT

Heritage communities in Egypt have continuously developed to sustain a history of millenniums. Developments have been focused on sustaining the physical heritage such as buildings and cities, yet ignoring the intangible heritage such as stories, memories and traditions of people. The results are deterioration of the developed physical heritage as a natural response of ignorance. Architectural Design Firms (ADFs) are responsible for developing innovative solutions that translate intangible heritage into sustainable projects. Such solutions require talented architects who are in need of being treated in a talented manner. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the role of Talent Management (TM) as a novel approach for developing innovative solutions for Egyptian heritage communities’ development. In order to achieve this aim, a qualitative approach based on (1) literature review is used to investigate heritage development, creative industries, ADFs, motivation and TM and (2) a case study is collected and analysed to study the relationship between TM and intangible heritage preservation.

Navigating the Cyber Museum: Reconstructing Indigenous Living History in A Journey into Time Immemorial

This article closely examines aspects of the Virtual Museum of Canada’s website A Journey into Time Immemorial to investigate the relationship between the poetics of new media and contemporary curatorial practices in Indigenous cultural heritage. In this interactive cyber museum, detailed reconstructions of a longhouse village, engaging motion graphics and video interviews with Elders are combined to represent the historical practices of Stó:l̄-Coast Salish peoples and their enduring significance today. The objective of this research is to reflect on how computational tools and spatial design were used to express temporal aspects of tangible and intangible heritage preservation and transmission.

Melodies of God: the significance of the soundscape in conserving the Great Zimbabwe landscape

ABSTRACTSacred landscapes require a holistic approach for conservation. They are intimate spaces, susceptible to cultural erosion if the focus is on material culture only. Mainstream conservation theories and processes, developed from western heritage traditions, emphasize monumentality. However, there are unquantifiable connections between people and place, which if eroded, can result in memory erasure and, ultimately, the un-inheriting of the heritage place. Soundscape, the relationship between people and the sounds around them, is an innovative way to understand these intimate connections. Using Great Zimbabwe, I examine how local communities connect and sustain place memory through preservation of intangible heritage. Several events at Great Zimbabwe have shown that soundscape is one way to represent these connections and that preserving the soundscape can also enhance tangible heritage conservation. I examine how the Great Zimbabwe cultural landscape’s soundscape is used to preserve memory and sustain connections between the people and the landscape.

Cities as Cultural Ecosystems: Researching and Understanding Music Sustainability in Urban Settings

From the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been a rapid growth of interest in the preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), stimulated by a suite of UNESCO Conventions and Declarations (2001, 2003, 2005, and UNCHR 2007). Globally, this has led to impressive growth of awareness and efforts to preserve the world’s arts and crafts, and considerable investment by many countries in initiatives to preserve cultural diversity. A key element in these efforts is defining the nature of what needs to be preserved in consultation with communities, and devising strategies on how best to approach the particular challenges that entails. While globalization and urbanization are often painted as the enemies of sustainability, I argue that most struggles and celebrations of sustainability in the arts inevitably play out in contemporary urbanized, globalized, mediatized, and commodified environments, which may be part of the solution as much as they are part of the problem. Following the work of scholars like Titon, this paper argues it is imperative to regard cultural practices as part of dynamic processes in dynamic environments rather than as artefacts in static environments. At its centre is a model of ‘cultural ecosystems,’ outcome of a five-year international research project (2009-2014) funded by the Australian Research Council: Sustainable futures for music cultures: Toward an ecology of cultural diversity. Taking music as an example, this article explores how an ecological approach can shed new light on approaches to cultural sustainability in urban environments.

ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ БЕЛОРУССКИХ МУЗЕЕВ ПО СПАСЕНИЮ КУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ ЧЕРНОБЫЛЬСКОЙ ЗОНЫ

An article contains information on the Belarusian museums activities which aims at the preservation of cultural heritage at the areas abandoned after the Chernobyl accident. The author presents his findings on the implications of the Chernobyl disaster for historical and cultural heritage of Belarus. The histories of expeditions undertaken in the polluted area, the character of survived objects and forms of their presentation at museum exhibitions are presented in the article. The author pays his attention to the problem of the affected area intangible heritage preservation as well. The Belarusian higher educational institutions which are engaged in the preservation of intangible heritage of abandoned area are shown as the important partners of the museums in the field.