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• ISBN: 0966552016
• ISBN: 9780966552010
• Physical Description: xiii, 399 pages ; 26 cm
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, ©2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This volume grows from a conference entitled 'A Global Assessment of the 1989 Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore: Local Empowerment and International Cooperation' held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., from June 27-30, 1999"--Preface.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Preliminaries -- Message from Mr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO -- Opening Address to the meeting / Mounir Bouchenaki -- The 1989 Recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore -- The 1989 Recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore : actions undertaken by UNESCO for its implementation / Noriko Aikawa -- The UNESCO questionnaire on the application of the 1989 Recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore : preliminary results / Richard Kurin -- Summary report on the regional seminars / Anthony Seeger -- A historical study on the prepration of the 1989 Recommendations on the safegualding of traditional culture and folklore / Samantha Sherkin -- The 1989 Recommendation ten years on: towards a critical analysis / Anthony McCann [and others] -- II. Strategic perspectives on local culture -- The globalization of interculturality / Miguel Puwainchir -- The role of education : acculturation back into the future / Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele -- Everything relates, or a holistic approach to Aboriginal indigenous cultural heritage / Robyn Bancroft -- Taking stock : the Gitxsan experience in cultural survival / Russall Collier -- American Indian arts and crafts : a study on handcrafts and the industry / Andy Abeita -- A seed is not shy of germination / Rajeev Sethi -- The 1989 UNESCO Recommendation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' intellectual property rights / Preston Thomas -- Protection of traditional culture and folklore / Kamal Puri -- Some considerations on the protection of the intangible heritage : claims and remedies / Lyndel V. Prott -- Global steps to local empowerment in the next mellennium : an assessment of UNESCO's 1989 recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore / Bradford S. Simon -- The role of UNESCO in the defense of traditional knowledge / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha -- Safeguarding traditional culture and folklore-existing international law and future developments / Janet Blake -- Cultural conservation : a two-way consultation / Grace Koch -- Indigenous arts, (Un)titled / Tressa Berman -- How to promote incentives for cultural heritage practitioners / Junzo Kawada -- Proposal for a Tripartite Theory (Transformation / transcontextualization / transposition) and its application to the empowerment of an East Asian Court Music Network with emphasis on the Vietnamese case / Yamaguti Osamu -- Tradition-based societies : local values for international cooperation / Mihaly Hoppál -- The SADC Databank : The role of data exchange in empowering local institutions / Renato Matusse -- Preserving Bahamian heritage / Gail Saunders -- Aspects dynamiques des cultures sonores : transformation du métier du griot au Niger sous l'influence du modernisme / Mahaman Garba -- Méthodes traditionnelles de transmission de l'oralité : l'exemple du Sosso-Bala / Namankoumba Kouyate -- Place Jemaa El Fna : patrimoine oral de l'humanité / Rachid El Houda -- Report on the Pacific Regional seminar / Sivia Tora -- Safeguarding traditional culture and folklore in Africa / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Reporte seminario regional sobre la aplicación de la recomendatión sobre la salvaguardia de la cultura tradicional y popular de America Latina y el Caribe / Zulma Yugar -- Problems of traditional culture and folklore in Europe / Heikki Kirkinen -- Report from Yakutiya / Stepanida Borisova -- Report of the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus / Kurshida Mambetova -- Report on the Regional Seminar for cultural personnel in Asia and the Pacific / Florentino H. Hornedo -- Cooperation to save human characteristics and guard their survival / Mohsen Shaalan -- III. A call for action -- Final report of the conference.

Language Note:

Includes some text in French and Spanish.

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