The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation

The paper discusses the role of anthropology in the protection of intangible heritage, which significantly pre-dates the bureaucratic concept defined by UNESCO’s 2003 Convention, and takes a look at the various dilemmas arising from the Convention’s practical implementation. It looks at social pract...

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Autor principal:	Ljiljana Gavrilović
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2016
Materias:	Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:77cbd1901ab648aeb6b92a4bfb4e8a682021-12-02T01:39:44ZThe Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation0353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/77cbd1901ab648aeb6b92a4bfb4e8a682016-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/322https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801The paper discusses the role of anthropology in the protection of intangible heritage, which significantly pre-dates the bureaucratic concept defined by UNESCO’s 2003 Convention, and takes a look at the various dilemmas arising from the Convention’s practical implementation. It looks at social practices that cannot be protected because they clash with the concept of human rights protection, or with contemporary positive legislation; at the exoticization of practices that are in reality still alive, but are represented as though they were not; at the relationship between the global and the local, with the aim of highlighting the various kinds of ambivalence within the concept itself, which the implementers of the Convention are usually unaware of.Ljiljana GavrilovićUniversity of BelgradearticleAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 221-234 (2016)
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description	The paper discusses the role of anthropology in the protection of intangible heritage, which significantly pre-dates the bureaucratic concept defined by UNESCO’s 2003 Convention, and takes a look at the various dilemmas arising from the Convention’s practical implementation. It looks at social practices that cannot be protected because they clash with the concept of human rights protection, or with contemporary positive legislation; at the exoticization of practices that are in reality still alive, but are represented as though they were not; at the relationship between the global and the local, with the aim of highlighting the various kinds of ambivalence within the concept itself, which the implementers of the Convention are usually unaware of.
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title	The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation
title_short	The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation
title_full	The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation
title_fullStr	The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation
title_full_unstemmed	The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation
title_sort	search for distinctiveness: challenges and dilemmas within the concept of intangible cultural heritage preservation and representation
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The Search for Distinctiveness: Challenges and Dilemmas within the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation and Representation

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