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This book explores the concept of heritage from the perspective of anthropologists working in different regions in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. 1 Although all the contributors are located in the discipline of anthropology, this does not necessarily imply that all have the same conceptual understanding of the issues involved. Several essays explore the notion of heritage (e.g. Aspraki, Costa, Kockel and Magowan) and it is very clear, that there are shades of difference in meaning. This underlines the need for a book such as this to explore anthropological definitions of and contributions to heritage on an international scale. In any case, one could hardly assume that a single English-language word could encapsulate all concepts and understandings of the term 'heritage', and there are probably different nuances in terminology in diverse languages. The Polish word for heritage is dziedzictwo, which derives from the verb dziedziczyc (to inherit) and the noun dziedzic (heir), and refers to 'what has been inherited'. Individual buildings, monuments, and so on are not 'heritages'. Instead they are items of heritage, and constitute specific elements of a broad collective inheritance. 2 The Swedish word arv also implies something that is passed on; an inheritance from which one cannot distance oneself or escape from. This is a passive rather than an active form of inheritance. It is received rather than earned. 3 The Spanish word patrimonio corresponds to the English word 'heritage', but it is also used in ways that would not apply in the British context and can refer to individual wealth or to the total capital of a company. Patrimonio nacional, for example, is an economic term for the wealth of a country, the sum of its assets, but it can also refer in a cultural sense to the heritage of a nation. It is for this reason, perhaps, U. Kockel et al. (eds.), Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Communities
Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 2018
This paper discusses the meanings and socio-cultural implications of "communities" in the context of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH), based on several pieces of relevant documents written by UNESCO and the experts in the field. The notion of "community" has been one of the key concepts in defining, safeguarding, and inscribing the intangible cultural heritages (ICH) in the context of UNESCO Programmes. In addition, the relationship between the communities and the ICH in academic analyses and policy-making is highly complex, multifaceted, and closely interrelated that the two cannot be discussed separately. Based on the analyses and examination of ethnographic cases, this paper concludes that, although the communities' opinions should be taken seriously in planning and implementing ICH safeguarding, it is important to consider the fact that the members of the communities are not homogeneous or in the same opinion.
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Living Communities
One way to expand management and preservation policies is to consider supporting cultural heritage that values the intimacy of associations through the active renewal of community and family connections such as rituals and tradition making. Many of these associations are not grounded primarily in the preservation of tangible or physical resources (ie, old buildings, monuments, or battlefield) or driven solely by profit motives. This discussion defines cultural heritage as a continuum of possibilities that includes tangible resources but also other acts of identity-making that are about process, discourse, and performance. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has recognized the importance of this kind of heritage as well, and in 2003, proposed Conventions for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This article argues that cultural heritage can be seen as a form of agency and a way to help people and communities make links between the past and the present in dynamic and nuanced ways. [Anthropology News, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. e21-e61, March 2014]
Communities and Cultural Heritage
2020
Communities and Cultural Heritage explores the relationship between communities, their cultural heritage and the global forces that control most of the world's wealth and resources in today's world. Bringing together scholars and heritage practitioners from nine countries, this book contributes to the ongoing dialogue on community heritage by analysing impediments to full community participation. The undermining of local communities comes at a high price. As the chapters in this book demonstrate, the knowledge embedded within traditional and Indigenous heritage creates communities that are more resilient to environmental and social stressors and more responsive to contemporary challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, post-disaster recovery and relocation. Cultural heritage practices often fail to capitalise upon local knowledge and traditional skills and undervalue the potential contribution of local communities in finding creative and resourceful solutions to the issues they are confronting. Arguing that the creation of successful community heritage projects requires ongoing reflection on the aims, methods, financing and acceptable outcomes of projects, the volume also demonstrates that the decolonization of Western-focussed heritage practices is an ongoing process, by which subaltern groups are brought forward and given a space in the heritage narrative. Reflecting on trends that impact communities and heritage sites across different geographical regions, Communities and Cultural Heritage will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners of cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology around the world.
WORLD HERITAGE VS LOCAL COMMUNITY. IDENTIFYING THE SOURCES OF CONFLICTS.
The presented work is an essay rather than a scientific dissertation. The author wants to put an impact on the source of conflicts regarding the complex subject of heritage management and conservation in comparison with the local needs and the given context. The paper attempts to show the role of local communities and their cooperation with authorities as well as the effects of such cooperation. The area of research comprises the problems arising in the field of implementing external rules on the local field, challenges appearing regarding the needs of local communities and the efforts of official authorities trying to implement the principles of the conventions. The problems arise when local communities display the lack of understanding and do not share the common idea of heritage conservation. This is caused mainly by the decreasing possibilities of comfortable life. The author tries to identify the main and wrongful approaches as ‘Gone with the Wind’, ‘The Prince and The Pauper’, ‘Heart of Darkness’ or ‘Scarlet letter’. The impact will be put to explain what are the areas where a mutual misunderstanding arise and why all parts to the problem present different points of view. What creates a value? Is it an heritage object or maybe the other values need a stronger protection? When the general duty and the need to protect the heritage is regarded as a controversy and when it is considered as a value within a given community? The international public interest in heritage protection is often regarded as an attempt to diminish the sovereign power of the community and provokes severe controversies and tensions. The major problem envisaged today seems to be the massive and increasing urbanisation and destroying the vestiges of still existing traditional cultures, whether we consider century urban post-industrial districts of Upper Silesia in Poland, the medieval cities in Western Europe, the traditional nomad Masaya villages in Kenya or the remains of vanished cultures in various regions of Asia. The preferred platform of cooperation between the parts to the conflict includes the divergent needs, beliefs and practices of communities and the possible fields of reconciling the abovementioned. The chosen examples of the best practices in range of mutual cooperation will be underlined. KEY WORDS: world heritage, communities, conservation, cooperation, conflict of values
Community development through world heritage
2012
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Cultural Heritage. New Perspectives.
2021
Important social changes in these last years have allowed us to analyze new paradigms of Cultural Heritage and to open new perspectives. Professor Wolfgang Welschthe, a German philosopher, affirms that the separatist idea of cultures has been surpassed through cultures’ external networking. In fact, the cultures today are extremely interconnected with each other. Lifestyles no longer end at the borders of national cultures, but go beyond these, are found in the same way in other cultures. The way of life for the community is no longer Italian or Japanese, but rather European or Global. The new forms of entanglement are a consequence of migratory processes, as well as of worldwide material and immaterial communications systems and economic interdependencies and dependencies. Consequently, the same basic problems or the progress of the knowledge today appear also in cultures or in studying areas once considered being fundamentally different: for example, the human rights, ecology, education, ethics, ecc.; these are only some of the topic that today we must analyze among the paradigms of Cultural Heritage. This book presents some reflections born from international seminars and that have had an important role in the reformulation of new perspectives for the definition of Cultural Heritage. In fact, the new conceptions of the culture are not just descriptive or abstract concepts, but operative concepts. Therefore, the understanding of these new perspectives is an active and important factor in our cultural life for a correct transcultural approach and so for a constructive dialogue with humanity.
2007
This book explores the concept of heritage from the perspective of anthropologists working in different regions in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe 1 . Although all the contributors are located in the discipline of anthropology, this does not necessarily imply that all have the same conceptual understanding of the issues involved. Several essays explore the notion of heritage (e.g. Aspraki, Costa, Kockel and Magowan) and it is very clear, that there are shades of difference in meaning, which underlines the need for a book such as this to explore anthropological definitions of and contributions to heritage at an international scale.
Cultural Heritage and Development
2001
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