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Conversation with Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Jessica Rawson, one of the world’s most eminent scholars of China, as they discuss Rawson’s book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. Listen in to learn…

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EbA and local/traditional/Indigenous knowledge

This video is the fourth of five videos which highlight cross-cutting topics that should be included in all EbA projects. In this video, participants learn about the topic of traditional knowledge…

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Hinablon Sa Cebu: A Community Extension Project of Cebu Technological University

From a research endeavour in 2013 to a Viable Demonstration Project at present, Cebu Technological University's mission of reviving a once dying cultural tradition and economic activity for the…

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Intangible cultural heritage, natural disasters and climate change

This chapter discusses how the knowledge and practices related to living heritage can contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and enhancing environmental…

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Intangible cultural heritage and education

The contribution of living heritage to quality education and lifelong learning is addressed in this chapter. Learners explore why the transmission of intangible cultural heritage in itself is a form…

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Intangible cultural heritage and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This chapter discusses the interdependence between the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development. The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural…

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Dynamic gender roles - dynamic living heritage

This chapter explores the dynamic nature of gender and intangible cultural heritage. It shows that the practice of intangible cultural heritage involves, in many cases, gender-specific roles, which…

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Gender-responsive approaches to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

This chapter focuses on building the knowledge required to apply a gender-responsive approach to designing and implementing measures for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. It begins by…

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Safeguarding measures

In this chapter, Prof. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto explains what safeguarding measures are. He discusses the difference between general safeguarding measures, which create favorable general conditions,…

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Ethics in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

This chapter introduces the ethical principles for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, and how they relate to the ethical issues encountered in safeguarding. Common ethical issues are raised,…

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Transmission and safeguarding

This chapter discusses the idea of safeguarding as ‘measures aimed at ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage.’ Learners explore the concept of ‘viability’…

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Inventories and safeguarding plans

This chapter introduces a variety of ways of inventorying intangible cultural heritage, which is organizing and presenting information on ICH in a systematic way. Inventorying is often the first step…

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Living heritage: Community-based approaches

A range of participatory methods for community-based safeguarding is presented and discussed in this chapter. Learners are reminded that community-based methods are important at all stages of…

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Living heritage: Community participation

This chapter begins by recalling that intangible cultural heritage does not exist independently from the communities who create and enact it, who give meaning to it and who identify with it.…

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Living heritage: Who are the communities?

This chapter discusses the concept of communities in the context of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. It reflects on who the communities are and how they can be identified in relation to…

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Intangible cultural heritage as living heritage

In this chapter, the definition of intangible cultural heritage as employed in the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is introduced. Intangible cultural…

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