01039nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001100001600042245009900058300001200157490000600169520072000175020002200895                                       d1 aJanet Blake00aSafeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: An Inter-disciplinary Approach to International Law  a475-4890 v53 aSafeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has, in reality, been an important priority and a requirement for a large majority of countries around the globe and their citizens long before the 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention (the 2003 Convention) for its safeguarding was adopted. Hence, despite its youth, as a subject matter of international regulation, the ‘problem’ of ICH was the lack of full international recognition of this pre-existing reality. In addition, the pre-existing ICH protection paradigm was one that prioritised monumental cultural forms over local and indigenous ones and that, when it addressed ‘traditional culture’, did so from a heavily researcher-oriented viewpoint.  a978-1-5099-0813-4