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afeguarding and promoting the traditional cultural heritage of India’s performing arts of classical dance, music, theatre, puppetry, crafts and folk arts. The Akademi has been designated as the nodal agency for coordinating India’s nominations for various lists as well as for other actions such as developing and maintaining the National Invento...
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e are also applied higher education courses in handicraft technology and design, traditional music, dance art, theatrical studies, cultural management, traditional textiles, traditional construction, and traditional metalwork at the Viljandi Culture Academy and Tallinn University. Documentation on intangible cultural heritage is held at the Estonia...
’s poetry) have been planned. The Ministry also organizes international festivals devoted to the Ahellil, Sufism, traditional song and dance and ancient music and regularly schedules inter-county cultural weeks to give populations the opportunity to discover the subtlety and wealth of other peoples’ popular arts and traditions. Promotion of the...
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y-based approach, including a major safeguarding programme for afro-descendant and indigenous foodways, dances, music, legends and traditions. Books and other more popular materials on ICH elements, such as brochures, have also been published. For example, seven cultural coursebooks have been compiled on the main traditional expressions of the six...
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s and toponyms, as well as all types of oral literature; folklore creativity in the areas of music, dance, traditions, games, ceremonies, customs aswell as other traditional folk values; traditional skills and crafts. The Amendments to the Act, the establishment of a separate department for intangible cultural heritage at the Ministry of Cultu...
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Arguedas'' (José María Arguedas National College of Folk Arts) trains school teachers of Peruvian folk music and folk dances, and the Peruvian National Commission for UNESCO has provided training in the identification and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage elements to Peru’s network of schools associated with UNESCO. For do...
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lowing domains: beliefs/mythology, popular festivities, rituals, traditional gastronomy, languages, music, dance, oral tradition, medicine, handicraft traditions, songs, traditional games, etc. An inventory was also developed for the nomination in 2005 of the Oxherding and oxcart traditions in Costa Rica as a Masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heri...
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museum; and the Nike Centre for Art and Culture, with five locations where artists, painters, drummers and dancers practise and perform and apprentices are trained by masters on a regular basis. The Institute of African Studies, the Institute of Cultural Studies and the Nike Centre are also named as bodies for training in intangible cultural herit...
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Salta and Santiago del Estero are active in the transmission of knowledge related to intangible cultural heritage, such as music, dance and traditional handicrafts. The Celebration of the National Day of Afro-Argentine and Afro Culture and the promotion of Afro culture should by law be included in the curricula of educational institutions. MATRA a...
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h subjects as Seychellois habitat, traditional medicine, traditional fishing and industries, songs, dances, riddles, legends, traditional cuisine and the maritime heritage of Seychelles. It organizes public lectures, cultural site safeguarding programmes, media programmes and publications and acts as a consultancy agency in cultural matters. The Cr...