Beyond Binarism Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance
Lo Iacono, Valeria ( 1944- )
Beyond Binarism Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance / Valeria Lo Iacono; David H.K.Brown .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016
21 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 34, núm. 1, Summer 2016, p. 84 - 105
RESUMEN: This essay, inspired by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, explores meanings and definitions of the term "cultural heritage" as it may be applied to dance. UNESCO's effort to include many different types of human expressions in its lists is commendable and an important attempt to safeguard the aspects of the world's cultural heritage. However, the binary oppositions of "tangible"/"intangible", frequently used to describe material and immaterial elements of culture and heritage create a false dichotomy. This label is particularly problematic for dance, given its complex, multi-dimensional nature in which intangible and tangible elements are indissolubly linked. Instead, we suggest an alternative perspective of "living cultural heritage" which is informed by three post-dualist conceptions contained within Gidden's Structuration theory (structure-agency), Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology (mind-body) and Bourdieu's theory of cultural practice (field-practice-habitus). This essay introduces the idea of a living cultural heritage by using the above post-dualist concepts as a stepping stone towards a more inclusive and fluid model of heritage. In this model, the cultural, embodied, practical, spatial, temporal and artefactual elements of cultural heritage are retained as each contributes to an emergent process of exchange and dialogue resulting in cultural heritage. PALABRAS CLAVE: Body; dance; intangible cultural heritage; dualism; duality; UNESCO
Brown, David 1968-
Beyond Binarism Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance / Valeria Lo Iacono; David H.K.Brown .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016
21 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 34, núm. 1, Summer 2016, p. 84 - 105
RESUMEN: This essay, inspired by the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, explores meanings and definitions of the term "cultural heritage" as it may be applied to dance. UNESCO's effort to include many different types of human expressions in its lists is commendable and an important attempt to safeguard the aspects of the world's cultural heritage. However, the binary oppositions of "tangible"/"intangible", frequently used to describe material and immaterial elements of culture and heritage create a false dichotomy. This label is particularly problematic for dance, given its complex, multi-dimensional nature in which intangible and tangible elements are indissolubly linked. Instead, we suggest an alternative perspective of "living cultural heritage" which is informed by three post-dualist conceptions contained within Gidden's Structuration theory (structure-agency), Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology (mind-body) and Bourdieu's theory of cultural practice (field-practice-habitus). This essay introduces the idea of a living cultural heritage by using the above post-dualist concepts as a stepping stone towards a more inclusive and fluid model of heritage. In this model, the cultural, embodied, practical, spatial, temporal and artefactual elements of cultural heritage are retained as each contributes to an emergent process of exchange and dialogue resulting in cultural heritage. PALABRAS CLAVE: Body; dance; intangible cultural heritage; dualism; duality; UNESCO
Brown, David 1968-