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The Urgent Safeguarding List now numbers 35 elements. The Intergovernmental Committee also inscribed 25 elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which serves to raise awareness of intangible heritage and provide recognition to communities' traditions and know-how that reflect their cultural diversity.
UNESCO has also created other intangible culture programs, such as a list called Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. This list began in 2001 with 19 items and a further 28 were listed in 2003 and another 43 in 2005. In part, the original list was seen as a way to correct the imbalance in the World ...
UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage from India includes fifteen examples (all are intangible cultural heritage). [1] The latest cultural heritage included in the list is Garba, a tradition dance form from Gujarat. No examples from India were included in the "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Protection" and "Register of ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and practices performed by a people. As part of a country's cultural heritage , they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [ 1 ]
The rise in the number of participating member states led to the 2003 adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which took effect in 2008. [6] [16] The standard-setting instrument was meant to complement the 1972 World Heritage Convention in its protection of intangible culture. [1]
Visiting the houses they scold the children and preach good behaviour. At the end they place a large rice cake on the children's back who carry it in this way to their parents. The ritual has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Koshikijima Islands, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima —
Cultural property includes the physical, or "tangible" cultural heritage, such as artworks. These are generally split into two groups of movable and immovable heritage. Immovable heritage includes buildings (which themselves may include installed art such as organs, stained glass windows, and frescos), large industrial installations, residential projects, or other historic places and monum
The Australian Accounting Standards Board included examples of intangible items in its definition of assets in Statement of Accounting Concepts number 4 (SAC 4), issued in 1995. [6] The statement did not provide a formal definition of an intangible asset, but did explain that tangibility was not an essential characteristic of an asset.