Today, it is generally acknowledged that indigenous culture and knowledge around the world is under threat by globalization, rights infringement and violation, and other effects of modernization, including the general […]
The Philippine archipelago is home to at least eight y ethnic groups that branch out into more than four hundred subgroups. While each group may be distinguished by common traditions, […]
Country Background Kyrgyzstan, officially called the Kyrgyz Republic, is a small mountainous country in Central Asia with a population of around six million people. The Kyrgyz Republic shares borders with […]
Introduction The Republic of Palau became a member of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in November 2011. As a new member, Palau has begun assessing […]
Turkmenistan is vast country with rich, diverse, and deeply rooted oral and traditional cultures determined in terms of their interconnected relationship among humans, nature, and animals. The majority of the […]
An inventory generally refers to a comprehensive list of tangible items, such as property, goods on hand, contents in an area. So within this idea, one must wonder whether it […]
The two outcome objectives of the Tonga Strategic Development Framework 2011-2014 related to our mandate are to: strengthen inclusivity communities by engaging districts and villages/communities in meeting their prioritized service […]
Introduction According to the recent archaeological findings, humans have been living in Sri Lanka since 30,000 BCE. Today, the people are made up of five ethnic groups. Sinhala, which is […]
Laos is aware that culture is the foundation for a nation’s survival. At the same time, culture is considered a driving force and end target for social development. A Lao […]
Bhutan is considered one of the culturally and spiritually richest countries in the world. Culture and traditions being resultant of the evolution of human civilization, they have developed according to […]
In China, inventory making is at the core of its legal system on intangible cultural heritage safeguarding today. China’s classification, application, and administration are very different to those in Korea […]
The culture of the Kazakh people originates from the deepest history of Eurasia. Its roots appear in the creativity of the nomadic tribes who roamed Kazakh steppes long before the […]
After gaining independence and under the initiative of the president, Uzbekistan commenced on a large-scale project to revitalize historic cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. These efforts resulted in the […]
Presently, there are three inventories of intangible cultural heritage in Japan: List of Important Intangible Cultural Properties, List of Important Intangible Folk- Cultural Properties, and List of Holders of Selected […]
Since Korea has undergone the fierce contemporary history through the Japanese colonial era and the Korean War, the Korean government enacted the Cultural Heritage Protection Act in 1962 for safeguarding […]
Indonesia, made up of tens of thousands of island and several hundred distinct ethnic groups, is home to various forms of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Nonetheless, in this age of […]
Pakistani culture is a living tradition practiced by most of its people. It includes both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Pakistan, with its rich and varied heritage, has a tradition […]
Bangladesh, the world’s largest delta is crisscrossed by many great rivers and their innumerable tributaries. With a vast expanse of lush crop fields and hilly borderland thickly covered with virgin […]
Culture is the very essence of our existence—it reflects our history, our language, our tradition and our beliefs. However, with the wind of globalization and change, our cultures and traditions […]
Intangible cultural heritage is one of the most unprotected forms of artistic heritage. Nowadays, in the globalization environment where different cultures exist and interact, intangible cultural heritage requires our special […]
