The Tautology of “Intangible Values” and the Misrecognition of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Smith, Laurajane; Campbell, Gary

doi:10.1080/2159032x.2017.1423225

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“…UNESCO offers a comprehensive definition of ICH that encompasses oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festival events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, or knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts inherited from one's ancestors and passed on to one's descendants. Consensus around the safeguarding of ICH has led to many studies regarding its identification, protection and inheritance [1][2][3][7][8][9]. Scholars have recently integrated ICH protection with the development of digital communications in an attempt to present ICH via social media or other network practices [6,10,15].…”

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“…Overall, tourism researchers should consider value in a broader sense [27], and more accurate terms should be applied when discussing heritage-related values (e.g., beliefs and interests, ideas and ideologies) [9]. In this paper, we take tourists' cognition of the value of ICH as a starting point, and then summarize historical, social, economic, aesthetic, educational and other values of TFTLC based on a review of the literature to build a foundation for ongoing tourism development.…”

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“…An enduring lack of social exposure and scholarly attention to intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has resulted in losses of government and community property due to ICH destruction. However, the inclusion of cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's) Convention's Lists has recently drastically improved the survival status of ICH, and associated tourism has begun to attract researchers' interest [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Tourism development has promoted the safeguarding and development of ICH to a certain extent, with some governments beginning to turn to ICH as a steady source of income.…”

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Visiting Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism Sites: From Value Cognition to Attitude and Intention

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Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently become an important area of tourism development for many countries that are home to such cultural resources. Within this context, the value of an ICH site has often been used to guide tourism development and policy making. In addition, community residents’ attitude and perception of ICH contribute to tourism development. In this study, we used the traditional firing technology of Longquan celadon in Zhejiang Province, China, as a case study to understand the relationships between value recognition and attitude along with the intention to visit the heritage site. We surveyed 368 residents and conducted path analysis to test such relationships. Findings revealed significant positive correlations between residents’ cognition of ICH value, their attitudes and travel intentions. Among them, attitudes played a mediating role in the formation of value cognition to travel intention. These findings offer insights into ICH-related tourism development, particularly regarding tourism product design, marketing and post-development evaluation, as well as the conservation of ICH sites.

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“…The outcomes are partially in line with the results of previous studies, such as Smith and Campbell (2017), which reported the direct influence of nostalgia on perceived authenticity. 100 (ii) Concentrating on the research model, connections indicated that heritage nostalgia leads to high levels of satisfaction, meditated through existential and object-based authenticity, among tourists, and existential authenticity plays a stronger mediating role than objectbased authenticity. (iii) This study revealed a significant association that reflected a positive effect of perceived authenticity on tourist satisfaction.…”

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Psychological and Behavioural Consistency Value Seeking of Tourists in Niche Tourism: Nostalgia, Authenticity Perception, and Satisfaction

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Cheng³

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Introduction:This study proposed a model based on Izard's theory of differential emotions to examine the effects of heritage nostalgia on perceived authenticity towards tourist satisfaction and the moderation of self-congruity in Chinese niche tourism. Methods: We examined descriptive statistics to obtain an overview of the sample by using computer program SPSS 22. Then, for evaluation, partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed as the appropriate statistical tool, and the statistical approach was implemented using the Smart PLS 3.0 computer program. Results: The results of partial least squares structural equation modelling showed that heritage nostalgia positively affects existential and object-based authenticity. Existential and object-based authenticity positively influences tourist satisfaction. Self-congruity positively moderates the relationship between existential or object-based authenticity and heritage nostalgia. Conclusion:The linkage mechanism of tourists' psychology and behavior in heritage tourism has been explored, the internal mechanisms such as heritage nostalgia, tourists' authenticity and tourists' satisfaction have been discovered, and the internal mechanism of tourists' consistency of psychology and behavior has also been explained.

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“…As we highlighted earlier, Australia's Burra Charter and Register of the National Estate embodied this tension and, as Winter has suggested, 'there is an uneasy ambiguity and frequent unspoken slippage, in critical interpretivist approaches and a concern for the actual conservation of culture' (Winter 2013, 396). Smith and Campbell (2017) argue that the problematic terms 'tangible values' and 'intangible values' have been introduced into heritage management and policy documents in recent years to manage the impact of critiques of heritage as social process and of the expansion of the category of 'intangible cultural heritage'. While this usage may represent a genuine attempt to change practice, Smith and Campbell argue that it actually works to exacerbate the dichotomy between tangible and intangible heritage by differentiating the values applied to material things (Smith and Campbell 2017, 28).…”

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Situating (in)significance

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Schofield

2020

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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In this paper we introduce the concept of '(in)significance' as a way to think about values in heritage, and in the attribution, recording, description, assessment and categorisation practices that characterise heritage processes. Our aim is to throw light on how this concept shapes, and is shaped by, contemporary heritage practices and outcomes. We consider the history of the idea of significance, particularly as it is defined in the Burra Charter, and trace its inheritance lines in settler nation states and capitalist economic structures, and highlight its retention of concepts of heritage value as both intrinsic and culturally attributed. Using international, mainly Anglophone examples, we review a range of case studies and examples of significance and insignificance, of significance assessment in practice, and the tensions between expert, institutional or 'official' values and broader concepts of heritage and attachment. We suggest that the dual or layered concept of '(in)significance' might allow for heritage practices that interact with emotions, memory, place and things in ways that are often not possible in the context of official heritage regimes because of rigid aesthetic and conservation paradigms, as well as identity and ownership claims and deeply invested national narratives.

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The Tautology of “Intangible Values” and the Misrecognition of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

Visiting Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism Sites: From Value Cognition to Attitude and Intention

Visiting Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism Sites: From Value Cognition to Attitude and Intention

Psychological and Behavioural Consistency Value Seeking of Tourists in Niche Tourism: Nostalgia, Authenticity Perception, and Satisfaction

Situating (in)significance

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