TY - JOUR
KW - cultural politics
KW - Festivals
KW - heritage
KW - Japan
KW - Okinawa
KW - Okinawa Island
KW - Okinawa Islands
KW - Okinawa [Ryukyu Islands]
KW - Ryukyu Islands
KW - stakeholders
KW - UNESCO
KW - cultural heritage
KW - festival
KW - Research
KW - stakeholder
KW - tourism management
AU - Sean Casey
AB - UNESCO s initiative to create a shared, global schema of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has generated considerable debate across disciplines on the efficacy and consequences of heritage designation. Such criticisms tend to rely on presumptions born from the  Invention of Tradition  model of analysis that lacks explanation of the articulation of local and (inter)national forces. Based on ethnographic and archival research, this article examines stakeholders at the local, national, and international level involved in the current nomination of Tarama Village s August Dance Festival for ICH. It critiques the theoretical value of analysis that neglects multiplicity of scale and suggests the need for a more global, system-oriented approach to heritage that illuminates the interplay between overlapping fields of heritage, tourism, and politics.
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2013.01.017
N2 - UNESCO s initiative to create a shared, global schema of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has generated considerable debate across disciplines on the efficacy and consequences of heritage designation. Such criticisms tend to rely on presumptions born from the  Invention of Tradition  model of analysis that lacks explanation of the articulation of local and (inter)national forces. Based on ethnographic and archival research, this article examines stakeholders at the local, national, and international level involved in the current nomination of Tarama Village s August Dance Festival for ICH. It critiques the theoretical value of analysis that neglects multiplicity of scale and suggests the need for a more global, system-oriented approach to heritage that illuminates the interplay between overlapping fields of heritage, tourism, and politics.
SP - 130
EP - 149
TI - Okinawan heritage and its polyvalent appropriations
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874673541&doi=10.1016%2fj.annals.2013.01.017&partnerID=40&md5=0d9bf7a4860c0213b371c8e2bae0ff60
VL - 42
SN - 01607383 (ISSN)
ER -