11 tangible and intangible heritage

tangible and intangible heritage

1. Tangible and Intangible Heritage LUISA S. LADORES., LPT., RN Subject Teacher

2. Cultural Heritage Legacy is what remains after one’s time. Handed down from one generation to another, legacy magnifies one’s life and living. It is said that legacy is what cultural heritage is.

3. According to John Feather, cultural heritage is a human creation intended to inform. architectures such as buildings, houses, and structures

4. artifacts like books, documents, objects, images, clothing, accessories, and jars things that made people who they are like oral stories, values, laws, norms, rituals, and traditions

5. Cultural heritage is a representation of the ways of living established by society or group and passed on from generation to generation. Cultural heritage can be categorized as either tangible or intangible.

6. Tangible means perceptible, touchable, concrete, or physical. A tangible heritage is a physical artifact or objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science

7. Objects that can be stored are included in this category : traditional clothing, utensils (such as bead work, water vessels), vehicles (such as the ox wagon),

8. documents (codes, laws, land titles, literature), and public works and architecture built and constructed by a cultural group (buildings, historical places, monuments, temples, graves, roads, and bridges fall into this category as well).

9. Intangible Heritage Intangible is the opposite of tangible. Unlike tangible heritage, an intangible heritage is not a physical or concrete item. Intangible heritage is that which exists intellectually in the culture.

10. Intangible heritage includes : songs , myths , beliefs , superstitions , oral poetry, stories , and various forms of traditional knowledge such as ethno botanical knowledge.

11. Threats to Tangible and Intangible Heritage There was a time in contemporary history when museums were in constant search and hurry to look for historical materials to display. Due to the ascent of demand for cultural materials, opportunists saw this as an avenue for them to earn money. They invented materials and claim that these were excavated or unearthed and once owned by a cultural group.