TY - MGZN
AU - V.T. Hafstein
AB - A critical, comparative approach to the implementation of the Intangible Heritage Convention brings to light the dominance of certain expressive genres in the activities called safeguarding: lists, competitions, prizes, documentaries and especially the festival. The dolma culinary tradition is widespread throughout the Mediterranean and the Caucasus into Central Asia, and as festive food, it is associated with a variety of ceremonies, rituals, holidays, weddings and festive events. Festivals are ‘geared toward deliberate display’, offering a ‘boastful’ reflection of the community to locals and visitors alike. As a genre of display characteristic of intangible heritage, the festival provides a stage for performing this reflexive modernity. Ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, heritage professionals and cultural administrators co-author the script and help set the stage. When festivals come under the sign of intangible heritage, they fit like a glove on the hand of the safeguarding project.
C2 - Herit. and Festivals in Europe: Perform. Identities
DO - 10.4324/9780429202964-14
LA - English
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Herit. and Festivals in Europe: Perform. Identities
N2 - A critical, comparative approach to the implementation of the Intangible Heritage Convention brings to light the dominance of certain expressive genres in the activities called safeguarding: lists, competitions, prizes, documentaries and especially the festival. The dolma culinary tradition is widespread throughout the Mediterranean and the Caucasus into Central Asia, and as festive food, it is associated with a variety of ceremonies, rituals, holidays, weddings and festive events. Festivals are ‘geared toward deliberate display’, offering a ‘boastful’ reflection of the community to locals and visitors alike. As a genre of display characteristic of intangible heritage, the festival provides a stage for performing this reflexive modernity. Ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, heritage professionals and cultural administrators co-author the script and help set the stage. When festivals come under the sign of intangible heritage, they fit like a glove on the hand of the safeguarding project.
PB - Taylor and Francis
PY - 2019
SN - 9780429511554 (ISBN); 9780367186760 (ISBN)
SP - 188
EP - 204
TI - Afterword: Festival as heritage/heritage as festival
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079578876&doi=10.4324%2f9780429202964-14&partnerID=40&md5=a2ff26bafe2ed9b6737c9b1e90da4af6
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