Mapping UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

Martin Grandjean (1) , Céline Grandjean (2)

1 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
2 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern

The creation of a list of intangible cultural elements to preserve (ICH, UNESCO) should be understood as a kind of reaction to the vast World Heritage List (WHC, UNESCO), highly politicized “wonders of the world” directory. For many reasons, related to the preservation of ancient monuments, the Western-centric definition of the terms “cultural” or “heritage” or because we find many European countries actively involved in United Nations programs, Europe is over-represented in the World Heritage list.

Mots clés: UNESCO; Cultural Heritage; Intangible Cultural Heritage; World Heritage; Mapping; Data visualisation; Data visualization; Music

Domaines: Héritage culturel et muséologie; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Géographie; Histoire; Méthodes et statistiques

Martin Grandjean, Céline Grandjean. Mapping UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. 2016. ⟨halshs-01526231⟩