Seventeen new elements inscribed on the lists of the Convention

4 December 2013

On Wednesday 4 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed two new elements on List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding:

• Mongolian calligraphy (Mongolia)
• Empaako tradition of the Batooro, Banyoro, Batuku, Batagwenda and Banyabindi of western Uganda (Uganda)

It also selected “[Methodology for inventorying intangible cultural heritage
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In the afternoon, the Committee also inscribed fourteen elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity:

• Annual pilgrimage to the mausoleum of Sidi ‘Abd elQader Ben Mohammed (Sidi Cheikh) (Algeria)
• Practices and knowledge linked to the Imzad of the Tuareg communities of Algeria, Mali and Niger (Algeria, Mali, Niger)
• Traditional art of Jamdani weaving (Bangladesh)
• Shrimp fishing on horseback in Oostduinkerke (Belgium)
• Círio de Nazaré (The Taper of Our Lady of Nazareth) in the city of Belém, Pará (Brazil)
• Chinese Zhusuan, knowledge and practices of mathematical calculation through the abacus (China)
• Mediterranean diet (Cyprus - Croatia - Spain - Greece - Italy - Morocco - Portugal)
• Commemoration feast of the finding of the True Holy Cross of Christ (Ethiopia)
• Limousin septennial ostensions (France)
• Ancient Georgian traditional Qvevri wine-making method (Georgia)
• Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing of Manipur (India)
• Celebrations of big shoulder-borne processional structures (Italy)
• Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year (Japan)
• Kyrgyz epic trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek (Kyrgyzstan)

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• Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Croatia, Spain, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda, Portugal,