Intangible Heritage Embodied

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Silverman, Helaine (Editor), Ruggles, D. Fairchild (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect in...

Table of Contents:

• From Tangible to Intangible Heritage
• The Heritage of Kunqu: Preserving Music and Theater Traditions in China
• Partition Memories: The Hidden Healer
• Gardens and Landscapes: At the Hinge of Tangible and Intangible Heritage
• Preserving the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India
• Governance and Conservation of the Rapaz Khipu Patrimony
• Geographies of Memory and Identity in Oceania
• Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois
• Folk Epigraphy at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, and Beyond
• Problematizing Technologies for Documenting Intangible Culture: Some Positive and Negative Consequences.