Gulf’,The Lenj boats which are used for trading, fishing and pearl-diving are built using traditional craft skills and are sailed through the application of traditional knowledge and know-how. In addition, there are a number of ceremonies and customs associated with sailing Lenjes, such as traditional sailor songs, the Fisherman’s New Year and...
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ural heritage in local- and state-level strategic programmes and plans (culture and tourism, supporting craftsmanship, encouraging creativity and new ideas on traditional values and skills) with a view to ensuring their sustainability. This is also reflected in the 2011-2015 Strategy for the safeguarding and the sustainable commercial use of the cu...
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ted a number of intangible cultural heritage projects, e.g. in 2002, with the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, to investigate five traditional handicraft villages in Hà Nội and its surrounding areas, whose craft tradition was under threat of disappearance. The aim was to teach students while safeguarding and promoting the craft villages in a sustain...
tly elderly women. The measures geared towards more formal modes of transmission (e.g. training courses and craft centre activities) have been less successful mainly due to the skill’s difficulty and time required to acquire it, as well as other demands on young people’s time. Few trainees have continued with Al Sadu weaving as a full-time occu...
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rnization Centre of the Ministry of Industry, which commissioned the ESFT to document the traditional crafts of Egypt and collect the related intangible aspects and the traditional knowledge of these crafts. In this context, 364 crafts were documented and the related information is now also stored in the Archives. This has formed the basis for a pr...
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he Department offers training on topics such as traditional dress, professions and industries, handicrafts, architecture, customs and rituals. Also within the University of Cyprus, the Department of Social and Political Sciences offers an undergraduate degree in social sciences that includes courses in ethnography and ethnomusicology. Relevant trai...
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er organizations and bodies from the tourism and economic sectors. An example is the Reinvigoration of the Traditional Crafts and the Promotion of the Artistic Creativity programme, which targets the promotion of the techniques connected to traditional crafts and contemporary popular performers. It also offers monetary grants, both to regional publ...
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of research, the Ministries of Energy and of Education and Culture jointly funded a project on ‘Old Crafts of Republic of Srpska’ (2007-11) and its publication in which the skills, knowledge and mastery of 13 crafts were recorded. As for promotional activities, in the Republic of Srpska postage stamps related to intangible cultural heritage wer...
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NMCAC promotes elements associated with African Culture and traditional knowledge systems related to craftsmanship (with youth and artists in the production of wooden sculptures). Mauritius has legally recognized and provided protection to sites of memory associated with intangible cultural heritage of its multiple communities. The management bodi...
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age are: Act No. 4/1958 (Digest) of the Slovak National Council on Folk Art Production and Arts and Crafts; Act No. 61/2000 Coll. on Adult Educational and Cultural Activities; and the Declaration of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage adopted in 2001. The main policy documents that form part of the s...