ICH as an Inherent Part of the Present

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the Thread of Intercultural & Intergenerational Understanding and Guarantee of Sustainable Development

Joanna Dziadowiec, PhD Polish Ethnological Society, Cracow joanna.dziadowiec@uj.edu.pl


• presence of the past in contemporaneity • There is no heritage without heritage awareness [Pomian] • ‘my’ heritage  a dynamic identity project • open set, pro-development resource • cultural concept, socio-cultural construct created in the everyday social element • complex dynamic discursive space • tradere & traditum [Nahodil]


the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This 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, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. consideration given solely to such cultural practices as are compatible with existing international human rights instruments, the requirements of mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals, and of sustainable development.


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between cultural reincarnation and simulation a mainspring of cultural diversity as living practice cultural cross-fertilization interfolklore



Wytnij Hołubca Project •7th October (National) Day of Folk Dance (Poland) •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYPvExc876M •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0lwzgQLtC0





joanna.dziadowiec@gmail.com https://uj-pl.academia.edu/JoannaDziadowiec


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