%0 Journal Article
%@ 1975-3586
%A Alivizatou, Marilena
%D 2008
%F discovery:10187177
%I NATL FOLK MUSEUM KOREA-NFMK
%J International Journal of Intangible Heritage
%K Arts & Humanities, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
%P 43-54
%T Contextualising Intangible Cultural Heritage in Heritage Studies and Museology
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187177/
%V 3
%X With this paper I make a proposal for the contextualisation  of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the interdisciplinary  field of heritage studies and museology, drawing on early  research conducted during my internship at UNESCO and  the first years of my doctorate. I examine emerging  conceptualisations of the term starting with the national  legislation of Japan and Korea in the 50s and 60s, and  more recently with the interventions of UNESCO. In  addition, I assess the development of ICH in terms of the  academic/intellectual discussions around the ‘alternative  heritage discourse’ and the ‘new museological discourse’.  Finally, drawing on interviews with Professor Patrick  Boylan, Dr Richard Kurin and Mr Ralph Regenvanu,  conducted in 2006-2007, I draw some preliminary  conclusions as to the wider impact of ICH on heritage and  museum theory and practice. What emerges is a critical  examination of the diverse conceptualisations and  appropriations of ICH, and of its potential to constitute a  new heritage discourse at the interface of ‘universalism’  and ‘particularism’
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