Daily Current Affairs 24-12-2020

About:

• Intangible culture is that part of culture which cannot be touched but can only be recorded. It includes performing arts like song, music, drama, skills, crafts etc.
  
  
• Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted in 2003. India ratified it in 2007.

   

  UNESCO’s list of intangible culture

  • It is an annual list which focuses on those forms of performing art which are of outstanding value but are vulnerable due to lack of support.
    
    
  • The program currently compiles two lists –
    • Representative List: It comprises cultural practices and expressions that help to demonstrate the diversity of this heritage and raise awareness about its importance. It is longer.
      
      
    • Urgent Safeguarding list: It is composed of those cultural elements “whose continuous recreation and transmission” are threatened and are in need of immediate support. It is shorter.

Domains: There are five broad ‘domains’ in which intangible cultural heritage is manifested:

1. Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage;
   
   
2. Performing arts;
   
   
3. Social practices, rituals and festive events;
   
   
4. Knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
   
   
5. Traditional craftsmanship.
• A total of 13 Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements from India have been inscribed till date on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.