Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS
Topic
Living heritage and the roles of individual players in the field of its safeguarding (community of bearers, institutions at various levels - from the community to UNESCO)
PhD. program
World Cultures and Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Year of admission
2024
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Ľubica Voľanská, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Filozofická fakulta UK
Annotation
Safeguarding policies embodied, for example, by the UNESCO 2003 Convention of the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of primarily serve to preserve the intangible cultural heritage or living heritage in the communities concerned. However, they also offer an opportunity for political and institutional manipulation, leading to its commercialisation, distortion of its presentation outside the local community, changes in original norms, values and functions associated with it, or misuse of living heritage to promote political and personal or group interests. The topic of the dissertation should be the ethnological reflection - a case study of one of the elements of living heritage inscribed in one of the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.