[Column] Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Community Research

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"Community") is one of the key concepts in the intangible cultural heritage protection engineering system initiated by UNESCO.

In the Convention and its derivative documents, the term appears repeatedly and has been placed in a critical position.

So far, the research results of domestic academic circles to sort out and discuss the meaning and status of communities based on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage policy, and summarize and reflect on the experiences and lessons of different countries and regions in community participation are still very weak, and relevant exploration needs to be deepened urgently.

This column intends to contribute in this regard.

Among them, my article carefully reviews the Convention and its important derivative documents, showing the status of communities in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage policy and its conceptual definition; An Deming's article further clarifies the heterogeneity and diversity of communities.

The characteristics of nature and its relationship with the government, advocates that the government should adopt a "cultural dialogue" attitude, and ultimately promotes a "community-led" situation in intangible cultural heritage protection; The article by Tang Lulu and Indian intangible cultural heritage protection worker Ananya Bhattacharya provides two international cases of community participation, which vividly and powerfully demonstrates how communities participate in and lead the process of intangible cultural heritage protection, and how intangible cultural heritage protection can make communities through tourism.

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It is hoped that this column will help promote the understanding of the importance of communities in the field of intangible cultural heritage protection in China, and will also serve as a certain level of vigilance and correction for the wrong practices of top-down and ignoring communities in the protection process in many places.

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[Yang Lihui] Community-centered-The status and definition of communities in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Policy

[An Deming] Communities in the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Diversity and Their Relationship with Government Power

[Tang Lulu] Collective performance led by community alliances-protection and inheritance of the Holy Blood Parade in Bruges

[Ananya Bhattacharya] Connecting intangible cultural heritage with tourism to empower communities