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Exploring the Frontiers of Heritage: Economics, Social Ecology, and Collective Memory

Exploring the Frontiers of Heritage: Economics, Social Ecology, and Collective Memory. Neil Silberman Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation Belgium. Crossing Some Important Frontiers. Reconceptualizing the Frontiers of Heritage. INTANGIBLE. TANGIBLE.

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Exploring the Frontiers of Heritage: Economics, Social Ecology, and Collective Memory

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  1. Exploring the Frontiers of Heritage:Economics, Social Ecology, and Collective Memory Neil Silberman Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation Belgium Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  2. Crossing Some Important Frontiers Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  3. Reconceptualizing the Frontiers of Heritage INTANGIBLE TANGIBLE Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  4. From Monuments to Cultures Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  5. From Objects to Processes Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  6. From Icons to Ideas Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  7. Shared Institutional Processes • Adopting universal criteria for significance and value • Categorizing and studying the physical types • Creating inventories of specific vessels of significance and value • Establishing guidelines and codes of protection • Conserving the extant physical manifestations • Communicating their value and significance through “official” heritage. Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  8. Dynamic, Not Static Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Definition 1 …intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity… Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  9. How Do We Safeguard Change? Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  10. What Exactly are We Safeguarding and How? Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  11. Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Definition 3 “Safeguarding” means measures aimed at ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage… as well as the revitalization of the various aspects of such heritage. Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  12. What Factors Are Endangering theViability and Vitality of ICH? • Economics: Globalised Mass Production and Consumption • Social Ecology: Demographic Mobility and Cultural Transformations • Collective Memory: The Use of the Past as Leisure Entertainment or Escape Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  13. “Traditional” Past and “Globalised” Present are not clear oppositions, but dynamic, competing forces. Creative exploration of the boundaries between them is the basis of sustainable Cultural Diversity… Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  14. Reconceptualizing the Frontiers of Heritage INTANGIBLE TANGIBLE Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  15. Reconceptualizing the Frontiers of Heritage TRADITIONAL GLOBALISED Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  16. SOCIAL ECOLOGY ECONOMICS HERITAGE COLLECTIVE MEMORY Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  17. Economics Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  18. Economics Profit-Driven Mass (Re)Production and Marketing Aesthetic/Social Motivations for Conservation of Tradition Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  19. Social Ecology Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  20. Social Ecology Contemporary Social/Economic Transformations Traditional Lifeways Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  21. Collective Memory Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  22. Collective Memory Created, Adopted and/or Marketed Attractions Traditional Sources of Cultural Identity Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  23. Study of the Dynamics of Cultural Tradition Identification of Tangible and Intangible Vessels Integration of Conserved Traditions/Products with Evolving Social Landscape Balance Past and Evolving Identities Reconceptualize Multiple Frontiers of Heritage with New Multidisciplinary Processes, Not Only Classifications Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

  24. The Frontiers of Heritage Are Everywhere Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation

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