Of cultural heritage and its categories

The emergence of what would become the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention began shortly after the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, reflecting that the content of the latter left many countries unsatisfied. The categories were already included in the first documents and finally were grouped into five distinct sections, which are nevertheless quite inaccurate and, more importantly, they have not defined the boundaries of expansion. In any case, Intangible Cultural Heritage has become relevant symbolic capital for which states as well as communities dispute the inclusion of items on UNESCO lists, in which the evaluation label is now paradigmatic: Heritage of Humanity .