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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..

Año de publicación
2016
Revista académica
Dance Research
Volumen
34
Número
1
Número de páginas
84-105
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Fecha de publicación
may
Idioma de edición
English
Numero ISSN
02642875 (ISSN)
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84971216412&doi=10.3366%2fdrs.2016.0147&partnerID=40&md5=10dfc4f9e9651b8e24d65de0eb2a424e
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10.3366/drs.2016.0147
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