Constructing new terminology for intangible cultural heritage

Museum International

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 36-44

  Van Zanten, Wim ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 60949520917     PISSN: 13500775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1350-0775.2004.00456.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Glossary Intangible Cultural Heritage. Prepared by an international meeting of experts at UNESCO. 10-12 June 2002. Edited by Wim van Zanten. The Hague. Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO. August 2002. 17+iii pp.
2. Peter Seitel, (ed.), Safeguarding Traditional Cultures: A Global Assessment of the 1989 UNESCO Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Heritage. Proceedings of the conference held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., from 27 to 30 June 1999. organized by UNESCO, Division of Cultural Heritage. and the Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Washington. D.C., Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Smithsonian Institution. Available on the Internet at http://www.folklife.si.edu/unesco/. 2001.
3. See also Peter Seitel, 'Defining the Scope of the Term Intangible Cultural Heritage'. Paper presented at the international meeting on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Priority Domains for an International Convention, organized by UNESCO in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 22-24 January 2002. 14 pp.
4. The definitions for 'intangible cultural heritage' produced by the various meetings are: 1) Turin. March 2001: 'Peoples' learned processes along with the knowledge, skills and creativity that inform and are developed by them, the products they create and the resources, spaces and other aspects of social and natural context necessary to their sustainability; these processes provide living communities with a sense of continuity with previous generations and are important to cultural identity. as well as to the safeguarding of cultural diversity and creativity of humanity' (Recommendations to UNESCO No.7 in Action plan of Turin Round Table, March 2001; see also Guide 2001:5.):
5. Transcriptions by the UNESCO secretariat of the twelve-tape cassette with the recordings at the International Meeting of Experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage - Establishment of a Glossary, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. 10-12 June 2002. 151 pp. [Unpublished.]
6. Antonio Arantes. 'Report (draft version) on the Establishment of a Glossary' relating to the International Meeting of Experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO Headquarters. Paris. 10-12 June 2002. 14 pp. [Unpublished.]
7. Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. 17 October 2003: 'Safeguarding' means measures aimed at ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage, including the identification, documentation, research, preservation, protection, promotion, enhancement, transmission, particularly through format and nonformal education, as well as the revitalization of the various aspects of such heritage.'
8. Jean Duvignaud and Chaznadar Chérif (eds.). Le patrimoine culturel immatériel; Les enjeux, les problématiques, les pratiques. Paris Babel, Maison des Cultures du Monde, 2004, 256 pp.
9. (Internationale de l'Imaginaire series, 620).