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Digital meets Culture https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/glossary/living-heritage/ Export date: Tue Aug 27 0:17:17 2024 / +0000 GMT |
Living heritage‘Living heritage' is the dynamic side of Cultural Heritage: heritage which is continuously transformed, interpreted, shaped and transmitted from generation to generation. It also represents the participatory, co-creative dimension of Cultural Heritage, and is characterised by its transient, non-stationary, and hard-to-grasp qualities. This concept is often assimilated to that of ‘intangible heritage' or ‘living culture', referring to cultural practices, representations, knowledge, and skills transmitted intergenerationally inside a cultural system. Though these terms are often used interchangeably, ‘living heritage' is used to convey and stress the role of living generations in engaging with, defining, interpreting, changing, and co-creating the heritage transmitted from past generations. |
