| Description |
After more than forty years of conceptualization around cultural heritage, UNESCO has encouraged different stakeholders to join their efforts to work with protecting and safeguarding. For many years, world heritage sites seemed far away from their social importance, and intangible cultural heritage elements did not have or seemed not to have a physical representation. This division during the 1980s and 1990s led to different governments demanding more inclusion of non-physical expressions, which in the end, resulted in the 2003 Convention. UNESCO itself has recently worked to diminish that idea during the last several years, making more visible the close relationship between physical and non- physical representations of cultural heritage, which we all already know but need to reinforce. |
