hrvatski

Cultural Memory, Knowledge and Identity: Transmission within Local Communities / Kulturna memorija, znanje i identitet: prenošenje u lokalnim zajednicama

Fresh news from the tenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in Windhoek, Namibia (2015) as addition to author's knowledge and experience in implementation of the Convention confirmed previous experiences that each year and each new cycle evaluators expect more elaborated criteria for inscription into UNESCO lists. From the beginning of the implementation of the Convention, when we could follow more top-down approach – from UNESCO to the Member States, and from the relevant government agency to the local communities – it was much easier to fall into the trap of misunderstandings. But soon after the first inscriptions on the UNESCO lists, a lot of local communities in Croatia expressed their wish to participate in the process by themselves. Each example from the field speaks for itself and during the process of implementation of the Convention at national level we often felt the need to reconsider our own decisions as the National Committee for the Safeguarding of the ICH. After several years of implementation of the Convention, the bottom-up approach was gradually phased in, highlighting the actual role of local communities. The initiative now is all theirs, and the role of experts has changed considerably from the time when the Convention came into being. When the National Committee for the ICH receives a proposal for registering of an element, it must be ready to discuss it with the local community and abide by their wish to highlight or point out publicly some of their own expressions of local identity and culture from different perspectives.

local community, cultural memory, knowledge, identity, Croatia, Krk

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engleski

Cultural Memory, Knowledge and Identity: Transmission within Local Communities

Fresh news from the tenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in Windhoek, Namibia (2015) as addition to author's knowledge and experience in implementation of the Convention confirmed previous experiences that each year and each new cycle evaluators expect more elaborated criteria for inscription into UNESCO lists. From the beginning of the implementation of the Convention, when we could follow more top-down approach – from UNESCO to the Member States, and from the relevant government agency to the local communities – it was much easier to fall into the trap of misunderstandings. But soon after the first inscriptions on the UNESCO lists, a lot of local communities in Croatia expressed their wish to participate in the process by themselves. Each example from the field speaks for itself and during the process of implementation of the Convention at national level we often felt the need to reconsider our own decisions as the National Committee for the Safeguarding of the ICH. After several years of implementation of the Convention, the bottom-up approach was gradually phased in, highlighting the actual role of local communities. The initiative now is all theirs, and the role of experts has changed considerably from the time when the Convention came into being. When the National Committee for the ICH receives a proposal for registering of an element, it must be ready to discuss it with the local community and abide by their wish to highlight or point out publicly some of their own expressions of local identity and culture from different perspectives.

local community, cultural memory, knowledge, identity, Croatia, Krk

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