TY - JOUR
AU - Martin Skrydstrup
AB - Following the adoption by the 2003 UNESCO General Conference of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage many States very quickly embraced and ratified the Convention (by the end of May 2007 there were already 86 States Parties), while others countries seem much more hesitant or even hostile. These differences in national attitudes towards ratification are potentially very interesting. While the August 2006 Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin and Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Washington D.C. at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Library of Congress did not address directly the possibility of ratification of the Convention by the United States it did nevertheless touch upon some of the central issues in the Convention, in particular the managing, preservation and access to intangible cultural heritage. The Symposium, and this brief review of it may therefore serve as contribution to the debates about intangible heritage issues taking place more widely around the world, and therefore is not only of relevance to the United States, since some of the different questions and criticisms voiced during debates may be of relevance to other States that remain hesitant about the concept, meaning and values of ‘intangible cultural heritage’ as defined in the 2003 UNESCO Convention.
DO - 10.35638/ijih.2007..2.013
N2 - Following the adoption by the 2003 UNESCO General Conference of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage many States very quickly embraced and ratified the Convention (by the end of May 2007 there were already 86 States Parties), while others countries seem much more hesitant or even hostile. These differences in national attitudes towards ratification are potentially very interesting. While the August 2006 Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin and Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Washington D.C. at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Library of Congress did not address directly the possibility of ratification of the Convention by the United States it did nevertheless touch upon some of the central issues in the Convention, in particular the managing, preservation and access to intangible cultural heritage. The Symposium, and this brief review of it may therefore serve as contribution to the debates about intangible heritage issues taking place more widely around the world, and therefore is not only of relevance to the United States, since some of the different questions and criticisms voiced during debates may be of relevance to other States that remain hesitant about the concept, meaning and values of ‘intangible cultural heritage’ as defined in the 2003 UNESCO Convention.
SP - 99
EP - 103
TI - Symposium Report: Only in America? Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
VL - 2
SN - 1975-3586
ER -