Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Politics

1. The practices and politics of safeguarding by Natsuko Akagawa and Laurajane Smith p.1, Part I: Legal, administrative and conceptual challenges p.15, 2. Further reflections on community involvement in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage by Janet Blake p.17, 3. Intangible heritage safeguarding and intellectual property protection in the context of implementing the UNESCO ICH Convention by Harriet Deacon and Rieks Smeets p.36, 4. Intangible heritage economics and the law: listing, commodification and market alienation by Lucas Lixinski p.54, 5. Inside the UNESCO apparatus: from intangible representations to tangible effects by Kristin Kuutma p.68, 6. Intangibility re-translated by Min-Chin Chiang p.84, 7. Language as world heritage? Critical perspectives on language-as-archive Ana Deumert and Anne Storch p.102, 8.The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: absentees, objections and assertions by Mairead Nic Craith, Ullrich Kockel and Katherine Lloyd p.118, Part II: The complexities of 'safeguarding p.133, 9. Batik as a creative industry: political, social and economic use of intangible heritage by Natsuko Akagawa p.135, 10. Replacing faith in spirits with faith in heritage: a story of the management of the Gangneung Danoje Festival by Cedarbough T. Saeji p.155, 11. World Heritage communities, anchors and values for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in southern Africa: Botswana and Zimbabwe by Stella Basinyi and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya p.174, 12. ICH-isation of popular religions and the politics of recognition in China by Ming-Chun Ku p.187, 13. National identity, culinary heritage and UNESCO: Japanese washoku by Natsuko Akagawa p.200, 14. Beyond safeguarding measures, or a tale of strange bedfellows: improvisation as heritage by Mustafa Coşkun p.218, 15. Playing with intangible heritage: video game technology and procedural re-enactment by Jakub Majewski p.232