Naslov
Empowering via Safeguarding?: A Comparison of the Implementation of UNESCO’ s Program on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Croatia and Macedonia

Autori
Ceribašić, Naila

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
First Symposium of ICTM Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe – International Manifestation Struga Musical Autumn, 4-8 September, Struga, R. Macedonia: Program and Abstracts / Stojkova Serafimovska, Velika, et al. - Skopje : SOKOM, 2008, 33-33

Skup
First Symposium of ICTM Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe – International Manifestation Struga Musical Autumn

Mjesto i datum
Struga, Sjeverna Makedonija, 04.09.2008. - 08.09.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
intangible cultural heritage; UNESCO; Croatia; Macedonia

Sažetak
UNESCO’ s program for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage is based on the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, accompanied by a significant amount of material dealing with its ideas and implementations. It emphasizes respect for diverse communities and groups, including those who are marginalized, and their authority in defining their heritage. It highlights the appreciation of processes instead of frozen objects, and the celebration of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. However, when put into practice, a number of problems arise. I analyze these by looking into the implementation of UNESCO’ s program in South- Eastern Europe, in Croatia and Macedonia in particular. Scholars who have dealt with the subject (e.g. Ahmedaja on Albania, Silverman on Macedonia, Tsitsishvilli on Georgia, and myself on Croatia) discovered a suppression and exclusion of certain, especially minority groups, or drawings of false boundaries between ethnic communities. The causes have been recognized mostly in, so to say, a strong yet intangible heritage of local nationalisms rather than in the Convention’ s profile. My argument goes against such an explanation. I argue that politics of intervention can hardly escape and solve tensions between affirmation and antidiscrimination, human and cultural rights, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, speech in the name of pluralizing and work in essentializing. Seems that the main effect of the program is in helping the tourist expediency of national heritage production in the context of multiculturalism as a cultural logic of multinational capitalism. Also, I argue that similar trajectories of tensions, particularly as regards the aim of empowering via studying the interlocutory communities, are present in ethnographic disciplines, ethnomusicology among them. The program on intangible cultural heritage is a meeting point for tourists, ethnographers and administrators.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti, Etnologija i antropologija

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