TY - JOUR
KW - Body
KW - dance
KW - Dualism
KW - Duality
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - UNESCO
AU - Valeria Lo Iacono
AU - David Brown
AB - This essay, inspired by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, explores meanings and definitions of the term  cultural heritage  as it may be applied to dance. UNESCO s effort to include many different types of human expressions in its lists is commendable and an important attempt to safeguard the aspects of the world s cultural heritage. However, the binary oppositions of  tangible / intangible , frequently used to describe material and immaterial elements of culture and heritage create a false dichotomy. This label is particularly problematic for dance, given its complex, multi-dimensional nature in which intangible and tangible elements are indissolubly linked. Instead, we suggest an alternative perspective of  living cultural heritage  which is informed by three post-dualist conceptions contained within Giddens  Structuration theory (structure-agency), Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology (mind-body) and Bourdieu s theory of cultural practice (field-practice-habitus). This essay introduces the idea of a living cultural heritage by using the above post-dualist concepts as a stepping stone towards a more inclusive and fluid model of heritage. In this model, the cultural, embodied, practical, spatial, temporal and artefactual elements of cultural heritage are retained as each contributes to an emergent process of exchange and dialogue resulting in cultural heritage..
BT - Dance Research
DA - may
DO - 10.3366/drs.2016.0147
LA - English
M1 - 1
N1 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
N2 - This essay, inspired by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, explores meanings and definitions of the term  cultural heritage  as it may be applied to dance. UNESCO s effort to include many different types of human expressions in its lists is commendable and an important attempt to safeguard the aspects of the world s cultural heritage. However, the binary oppositions of  tangible / intangible , frequently used to describe material and immaterial elements of culture and heritage create a false dichotomy. This label is particularly problematic for dance, given its complex, multi-dimensional nature in which intangible and tangible elements are indissolubly linked. Instead, we suggest an alternative perspective of  living cultural heritage  which is informed by three post-dualist conceptions contained within Giddens  Structuration theory (structure-agency), Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology (mind-body) and Bourdieu s theory of cultural practice (field-practice-habitus). This essay introduces the idea of a living cultural heritage by using the above post-dualist concepts as a stepping stone towards a more inclusive and fluid model of heritage. In this model, the cultural, embodied, practical, spatial, temporal and artefactual elements of cultural heritage are retained as each contributes to an emergent process of exchange and dialogue resulting in cultural heritage..
PY - 2016
SP - 84
EP - 105
T2 - Dance Research
TI - Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84971216412&doi=10.3366%2fdrs.2016.0147&partnerID=40&md5=10dfc4f9e9651b8e24d65de0eb2a424e
VL - 34
SN - 02642875 (ISSN)
ER -