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Publications associées (8)
Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Traditional Martial Arts
Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou
Traditional martial arts are treasures of humanity's knowledge and critical carriers of sociocultural memories throughout history. However, such treasured practices have encountered various challenges in knowledge transmission and now feature many entries ...
2024Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage
Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto
This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...
2023Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral
Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw
New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...
2021Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea
Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati
Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...
2021The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions
The chapter explores the social and historic construction of heritage and the role played in this by institutions, from an anthropological perspective. Since state members ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that can ...
Amsterdam University Press2020Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”
Since ratifying the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008, Swiss cultural authorities have taken its innovative cultural philosophy to heart. Despite the central role of tradition and folklore in the history of this ...
2018Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca
Based on the 'universal' values of economic development, democratic governance and cultural diversity promoted by UNESCO, the official policy of the Federation of Malaysia, known as Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020), promotes modernization with an emphasis on dem ...
Taylor & Francis2012Chinese Clan Associations in Penang. How Margins become a part in the process of World Culture Heritage
This article begins with the celebration of George Town’s enrolment (along with Melaka, both in the Strait of Malacca) on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It then sketches the process by which the Chinese clan jetties, built on stilts over the sea and, unti ...
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