Poster Downroad

1st Public Symposium of the Anthropological Institute, Nanzan University 2020 Asian Ethnology Series 2

"Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition"

［Date and Time］October 26, 2020 (Mon) 09:30－11:30

［Format］Zoom Webinar

［Language］ English 　　

［Host］ Benjamin Dorman (Nanzan University)

［Moderator］ Thomas David DuBois (Beijing Normal University)

［Participants］

Ziying You (The College of Wooster)

Patricia Ann Hardwick (Sultan Idris Education University)

Leah Lowthorp (University of Oregon)

Hideyo Konagaya (Waseda University)

Qiaoyun Zhang (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College)

Philipp Demgenski (Zhejiang University)

［Program］

09:30-09:35　Introduction (Host)

09:35-11:00　Symposium (Moderator & Participants)

11:00-11:30　Q&A

This symposium features the guest editors and contributors of the Asian Ethnology Special Issue "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition" (AE 79-1)

【Report】

68 attendees participated in this symposium, in which each panelist responded to questions from the moderator. Some of the discussion included considerations about what was happening in various regions concerning COVID and the impact it was having on festivals and sites. There were a number of questions raised in the symposium. Please view the video here:

［Abstract］ The special issue was structured around six case studies from China, India, Japan, and Malaysia, conducted by scholars from Asia, Europe, and America, with interdisciplinary training in folklore, anthropology, and ethnomusicology. The contributors combined both top-down and bottom-up approaches to illuminate various discourses and practices surrounding the definition, listing, and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) within particular social, political, cultural, and economic contexts in Asia. The key themes that emerged across the six case studies included: (1) an Asian paradigm of the safeguarding of ICH; (2) listing, nationalism, and the reification process of ICH; (3) international, national, and local politics surrounding ICH; (4) the interplay of ICH, tourism, and economic development; and (5) ICH and communities in discourse and in practice.

This symposium will focus on these studies, with each contributor participating in the discussion.