Tangible intangibles on the Unesco heritage list
January 9, 2025 2:27 PM   Subscribe

The UNESCO lists of world heritage intangibles include all manner of things including dance, glassblowing, and even seasons. I would like help identifying ones that specifically relate to ritualised "do it together" or similar collective creativity, where a group of people create a tangible object together, or create their own "one" of something together.

Boatmakers making boats would be a bad example, kimjang, the communal making of kimchi would be a pretty good one, but best of all would be something where, say all the youth of a cohort get together and make knives or hats or whatever for themselves or each other or something at a special event.

If you know of something similar that isn't on the list I am also interested in hearing about it, but ideally it would be one of the protected things.
posted by J.R. Hartley to Society & Culture 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
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