Lecturer: Dr. Michelle Stefano

After briefly revisiting the debate about the usefulness of the inventory method, this lecture then turns to a discussion of participatory inventory approaches. This part of the lecture will discuss how the inventory process can be used as a tool for documentation, awareness-raising and mapping the history and meaning of local forms of intangible heritage, as well as understanding the relationships between culture bearers, cultural expressions and the community.

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• Inventories of ICH
• Identification of ICH

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Recommended Links and Readings:

• Asia and the Pacific 2004 Workshop on Inventory-making for Intangible Cultural Heritage Management, Final Report, Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU)Tokyo, Japan, 6-11 December 2004.http://www.accu.or.jp/ich/en/pdf/2004_Tokyo.pdf
• UNESCO-ACCU Expert Meeting on Community Involvement in Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Towards the Implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Tokyo, Japan, 13-15 March 2006 http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/doc/src/00034-EN.pdf
• Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland http://ichscotland.org/