TY - JOUR
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Tourism
KW - India
KW - Kalbeliyas
KW - marginalization
AU - Ruchika Ranwa
AB - Through the case of intangible cultural heritage of Kalbeliya dance and songs of India, this paper argues that tourism can profoundly affect intangible heritage as well as its practitioners or bearers. In-depth interviews and observation were employed to collect data for this paper. Findings show that tourism has led to drastic changes in the aesthetic content of Kalbeliya performances as well as the context in which they are performed due to their increased production in commercial settings leading to their commodification. Kalbeliya performers, who should ideally act as active agents as heritage practitioners, are also marginalized culturally from their own performing traditions. Among positive consequences of tourism, results reveal limited economic benefits for Kalbeliya performers and their improved self-esteem as cultural custodians which has also remained limited to a few popular Kalbeliya performers.
BT - Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
DA - mar
DO - 10.1080/14766825.2021.1900208
LA - English
M1 - 1-2
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - Through the case of intangible cultural heritage of Kalbeliya dance and songs of India, this paper argues that tourism can profoundly affect intangible heritage as well as its practitioners or bearers. In-depth interviews and observation were employed to collect data for this paper. Findings show that tourism has led to drastic changes in the aesthetic content of Kalbeliya performances as well as the context in which they are performed due to their increased production in commercial settings leading to their commodification. Kalbeliya performers, who should ideally act as active agents as heritage practitioners, are also marginalized culturally from their own performing traditions. Among positive consequences of tourism, results reveal limited economic benefits for Kalbeliya performers and their improved self-esteem as cultural custodians which has also remained limited to a few popular Kalbeliya performers.
PY - 2022
SP - 20
EP - 36
T2 - Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
TI - Impact of tourism on intangible cultural heritage: case of Kalbeliyas from Rajasthan, India
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102950075&doi=10.1080%2f14766825.2021.1900208&partnerID=40&md5=a1b2c9348667edf70289a671feed2e26
VL - 20
SN - 14766825 (ISSN)
ER -