scholarly journals The Mari Lwyd Has Entered the Chat: Intangible Heritage in the Age of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Howell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
And Performance

Covid-19 and lockdown measures severely limited social movement and interaction. These protective measures had significant impacts on intangible cultural heritage. In a global context, living and performance based forms of heritage largely ceased, causing damaging interruptions for the continuity of traditional practice. Many traditional practitioners and community groups turned to online video sharing platforms as a means of continuing and communicating their cultural forms. This chapter explores the potential and limitations of digital media as a means of maintaining intangible heritage in extreme scenarios, and questions what lessons need to be learned by heritage practitioners when considering these forms of media as part of heritage safeguarding strategies.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Intangible Cultural Heritage and Urban Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12921
Author(s):  
Daniel Sampaio Tavares ◽  
Fernando Brandão Alves ◽  
Isabel Breda Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Relationship

The need to study and understand urban resilience has been defended by academics, justified by a new global context characterized by a growing urban population and a changing climate. Moreover, the importance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has been recognized by UNESCO since 2003. Nevertheless, the relationship between ICH and urban resilience discourses is recent, with academic studies on this topic seeing an exponential growth from 2017 onward. This article aims to develop a systematic literature review in order to answer the research question “how does intangible heritage relate to urban resilience?” and present current academic debates on this relationship. Following a methodology which entailed an academic database search and the application of exclusion criteria, 94 results from Scopus and Web of Science were retrieved and analysed. The article presents a discussion of results and showcases an existing linkage between both areas of study. This study demonstrates the fragmentation and diversity of the debates when addressing the relationship between the two topics, with an existing focus on sustainability discourses, built heritage and the role of local communities. Moreover, the article also shows a prevalence of discourses based on an engineering resilience approach. Considerations for future approaches to ICH and urban resilience are presented, namely, the need to better integrate ICH into urban resilience discourses.

scholarly journals Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

scholarly journals Blockchain Technology for Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shen Lvping
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Loss ◽  
Network Attacks ◽  
Malicious Software ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Encryption Algorithms

With the development of information technology and network technology, digital archive management systems have been widely used in archive management. Different from the inherent uniqueness and strong tamper-proof modification of traditional paper archives, electronic archives are stored in centralized databases which face more risks of network attacks, data loss, or stealing through malicious software and are more likely to be forged and tampered by internal managers or external attackers. The management of intangible cultural heritage archives is an important part of intangible cultural heritage protection. Because intangible heritage archives are different from traditional official archives, traditional archive management methods cannot be fully applied to intangible heritage archives’ management. This study combines the characteristics of blockchain technology with distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, encryption algorithms, etc., and proposes intangible cultural heritage file management based on blockchain technology for the complex, highly dispersed, large quantity, and low quality of intangible cultural heritage files. Optimizing methods, applying blockchain technology to the authenticity protection of electronic archives and designing and developing an archive management system based on blockchain technology, help to solve a series of problems in the process of intangible cultural heritage archives management.

scholarly journals Heritales 2017 - Beyond the academia. Re-thinking Heritage trough cinema and others art forms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Zozaya-Montes ◽  
Nicola Schiavottiello
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Positive Feedbacks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Future Events ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

The UNESCO World Heritage city of Évora (Portugal) hosted the second Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival in September 2017. In this edition the festival focused on current and past sustainable communities, selecting works that explored and problematized the relationship and coexistence of modernity and sustainability when applied to human groups and societies. The films presented the everyday life, knowledge, crafts and know-how of ordinary people highlighting the changes and challenges that the expansion of consumer-based economies, globalization and world politics have brought. As organizers, by focusing on sustainability in heritage context, we wanted to go beyond current preservation strategies of the tangible and intangible heritage, to promote a reflection on the “culture of sustainability” itself, looking at how sustainable ways-of-existence have characterized various communities and cultural practices worldwide. Since its first edition, the festival has been a space for the promotion of a critical understanding of cultural heritage, aimed to the broader public. By using emblematic historical places as stage, Heritales has challenged the mainstream cultural heritage scientific communication. Its proposal is to approach heritage’s issues through multiple types of media and artistic work such as films and documentaries but also cultural heritage’s games, exhibitions, theatre and performance, with talks and several communication strategies to facilitate the encounter between the authors and the public. Although the festival has received many positive feedbacks and the support of various entities such as the UNESCO Chair of the University of Évora (Portugal) and the FCT (Science and Technology Foundation, Portugal) it is still at its early stage of action. In this paper we would like to present the results of our experiment and analyse its concept and results, so that more collaborative and sustainable methodologies can also become a part of our plan of actionfor the organization of future events.

Contribuția etnologului Sergiu Moraru la dezvoltarea folcloristicii din Basarabia – itinerar biografic și științific

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Cocieru ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the present study, the author traces the biographical landmarks and the preoccupations of the ethnologist Sergiu Moraru for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage by conducting field researches and scientific use of registered materials. He worked for almost 23 years in the academic field (at Department of Ethnography and Arts Study of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, then at the Folklore Sector of the Institute of Language and Literature of the ASM, at the Department of Ethnography and Arts of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of ASM), holding the positions: lower scientific researcher, scientific researcher. A prominent personality of Romanian folkloristics from Bessarabia, Sergiu Moraru has established himself as a prolific researcher of ethnocultural phenomena, being passionate about the species of non-occasional folklore: lyrical songs, proverbs, sayings, riddles, shouts, memories and verse letters. The scientific activity focused on several research directions: the theoretical, methodological and philosophical aspects of folklore; the genesis, evolution, typology and poetics of the lyrical song and riddles; capitalization of the folklore heritage and classical folkloristics; promotion and performance of the folk treasure in folk festivals; the permanence of popular creation in contemporaneity, etc.

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Management of Educational Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Burcu Toker ◽  
Hamed Rezapouraghdam
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Educational Tourism ◽  
Tourism Experience

Travel has been advocated as a fortifying ground for experiential learning that can engage individuals in numerous experiences through the observation of the destination society and culture. In spite of the vast literature available about the link between tourism and experiential learning outcomes, there are limited studies that gauge educational tourists' familiarity with the intangible cultural heritage of their host communities. Particularly, this study focuses on local food, which is known as a marker of the destination culture and an intangible heritage that plays an inevitable role in almost any tourism experience. Correspondingly, the current exploratory study took an experiential learning approach to understand educational tourists' knowledge about local foods in Cyprus. The findings of the research revealed that educational tourists have very meager knowledge of local foods. The discussion is accordingly provided.

Film and Performance: Intermedial Intersections

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Stephen Barber
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Image Projection ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Performance Events ◽  
And Performance

Film and performance have always been closely interconnected, from the origins of cinematic projection in 1895. This essay, with a theoretical focus, explores how film and moving-image forms work to transform performance when they intersect with it, and vice versa. It examines how film serves to mediate and ‘reframe’ the experience and the time of live performance events, notably through the incorporation of moving-image elements into the space of performance, and through particular forms of projection and audience perception. It also probes how conceptions of intermediality can be traced specifically through the intersection of film and performance. The essay spans the entirety of moving image culture, beginning with an account of the connections between film and performance in the work of the German innovators of moving-image projection, the Skladanowsky Brothers, and ending with an examination of the work of the contemporary Lebanese filmmaker and performance artist, Rabih Mroué, whose work resonates with early cinema’s performative strategies but focuses also on current digital media events such as the dangerous ‘performative’ public filming with iPhones of government snipers in the streets of Syria.

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