ICH as a Legitimation Strategy for Traditional and Complementary Healing Methods?
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Manage No DI00000295 Country Republic of Korea Author Michaela Noseck-Licul Published Year 2019 Language English Copyright 
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| Description | As a cultural anthropologist with a special interest in healing knowl-edge situated outside classic biomedicine, I have been observing the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) since 2007, when it was first discussed, all the way through to its ratification and subsequent imple-mentation in Austria. One of the first tasks was to survey healing and health practices as possible elements for inscription on the National Inventory of ICH in Austria. First, it was necessary to define the crite-ria for inscription and to decide what sort of practical and theoretical healing knowledge should and may be included in the inventory and what not to inscribe, respectively. Moreover, who was to decide what constitutes ICH worthy of safeguarding? These were the most urgent questions at the beginning of what was to become an extremely enrich-ing learning process.In the interest of exploring these core questions, the 2007–2010 period saw a research project conducted under my leadership that had been initiated by the Austrian Commission for UNESCO and was financed by both the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and the insur-ance company UNIQA. | ||
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