TY - JOUR
KW - cultural heritage
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - UNESCO
KW - government
KW - policy approach
KW - cultural tradition
KW - cultural policy
KW - Vietnam
KW - Viet beliefs in the mother goddesses of three/four realms
KW - Viet Nam
AU - S. Oizumi
AB - In December 2016, the element titled “Practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms” was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Under Vietnam’s socialist government, rituals and festivals related to the beliefs in Mother Goddesses had been prohibited as superstition before the Doi Moi period. Even though these beliefs and related practices were reevaluated and revived as a beautiful tradition, especially after the 1990s, there has been constant debate over whether beliefs in Mother Goddesses can be categorized as superstition. The question here is why Vietnam’s government applied for the inscription of this element while it had not yet concluded the debate. In this article, by considering this question we examine how Vietnam’s government intends to increase control over this element through naming, protecting, and avoiding its transformation. We also demonstrate that the framework for the heritagization of this element has been changed from theaterization to purization as beliefs, so that the government can criticize and prevent stage adaptation or theaterized rituals as an unintended transformation of heritage.
BT - Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
DO - 10.20495/tak.56.2_148
LA - Japanese
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Center for Southeast Asian Studies
N2 - In December 2016, the element titled “Practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms” was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Under Vietnam’s socialist government, rituals and festivals related to the beliefs in Mother Goddesses had been prohibited as superstition before the Doi Moi period. Even though these beliefs and related practices were reevaluated and revived as a beautiful tradition, especially after the 1990s, there has been constant debate over whether beliefs in Mother Goddesses can be categorized as superstition. The question here is why Vietnam’s government applied for the inscription of this element while it had not yet concluded the debate. In this article, by considering this question we examine how Vietnam’s government intends to increase control over this element through naming, protecting, and avoiding its transformation. We also demonstrate that the framework for the heritagization of this element has been changed from theaterization to purization as beliefs, so that the government can criticize and prevent stage adaptation or theaterized rituals as an unintended transformation of heritage.
PY - 2018
SP - 148
EP - 184
T2 - Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
TI - Vietnam government’s protection policy control of viet beliefs in mother goddesses as intangible cultural heritage
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064523610&doi=10.20495%2ftak.56.2_148&partnerID=40&md5=72ec6d10ff8501772c0014078e73c1b1
VL - 56
SN - 05638682 (ISSN)
ER -