# Recent Trends in Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage dates back to only 2003. Yet it is already having a major impact, globally and within the preservation community of the United States. This movement explicitly recognizes that material culture is intertwined with ideas, memories, knowledge, skills, creativity, spirituality, emotions, traditions, and other intangible qualities. As much as possible, preservation of these intangible aspects of material culture, in conjunction with the objects they are associated with, is a goal of modern preservation efforts. Chandra Reedy will discuss highlights of the 2003 Convention, and its context within overall preservation efforts of UNESCO (such as Memory of the World and the World Heritage Convention) and within past efforts of the conservation and preservation communities in the United States. Recent global efforts and current directions of the work in this field will be reviewed, followed by a discussion about how and why intangible data can and should be preserved in close association with material culture when dealing with library materials, works of art, utilitarian objects, spiritual and ritual objects, buildings and monuments, or landscapes.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688045/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
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