01132nas a2200109   4500000000100000008004100001100001800042245009300060300001200153520083500165020002201000                                       d1 aChi-Fang Chao00aLocal versus world culture: intangible and tangible cultural heritage on Taketomi Island  a269-2733 aDance has become an important target for cultural identity or community intensification. It contains both the tangible and intangible aspects of group life, which can be manifested in the objectification of cultural body, however in a processual fashion. This paper presents the specific example of a temporary project on the Island of Taketomi in Okinawa, in which locals, not as a group but as an assemblage, intended to promote the most important annual ritual and performing arts, that is, the most important  local culture  unto the list of  world heritage . The presentation of the ritual and its dances followed a certain fashion of cultural aesthetics that embraces the formal and the spiritual. Discussion and debates between external experts and local exponents highlight the issues of representation and interpretation.  a978-953-6020-98-0