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Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf Freie Universität Berlin Erziehung Und 1 Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf Freie Universität Berlin Erziehung und Anthropologie D-14169 Berlin Arnimallee 11 Germany DOI: 10.24153/2079-5912-2017-8-3-4-12 THE PERFORMATIVITY AND DYNAMICS OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Introduction The practices of intangible cultural heritage are central to the cultural Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology heritage of humanity, which comprises practices from a plethora of different and Education and a member of the cultures as well as monuments listed as world cultural heritage. These oeuvres Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research and practices play an important role in the cultural identity of human beings. Centre (SFB) “Cultures of Performance,” the They are an expression of cultural diversity, they can promote inter-human Cluster of Excellence “Languages of processes of mediation and initiate educational development on many Emotion,” and the Graduate School levels which conveys cultural heritage to the next generation. Engaging with “InterArts” at the Freie Universität Berlin. His these practices under the conditions of globalisation permits us to make books have been translated into 15 languages. For his research in anthropology important experiences of heterogeneity and otherness (Wulf/Merkel 2002; and anthropology of education, he received Wulf 2006; Paragrana 2010). the title “professor honoris causa” from the The importance of the monuments listed by UNESCO as world cultural University of Bucharest. He is Vice President of heritage for the cultural self-understanding of man is undisputed – by the German Commission for UNESCO. contrast, the role of the practices of intangible cultural heritage is subject to Research stays and invited professorships have included the following locations, more controversial debate. This is all the more surprising given that the among others: Stanford, California; Tokyo, monuments have arisen out of man's intangible cultural practices. Japan; Kyoto, Japan; Beijing, China; Mysore, In the context of the growing influence in modern societies of India; Paris, France; Modena, Italy; individualisation and personal autonomy, we are at times confronted with Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Stockholm, the view that many practices of intangible cultural heritage have today Sweden; London, England; and Saint Petersburg, Russia. become superfluous and could be replaced by other practices. Just like in Major research areas: historical and cultural the old days, however, communal life is impossible without the practices of anthropology, educational anthropology, intangible cultural heritage. They are historical and cultural products, and in mimesis, aesthetics, rituals and emotions. studying them, the cultural determination of the phenomena themselves and Christoph Wulf is editor, co-editor and the culturally determined character of the research perspectives brought to member of the editorial staff of several national and international journals. them come to be superimposed upon one another (Wulf 2002, 2010, 2013). КАЗАНСКИЙ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ ВЕСТНИК. #3 2017 (26) 23 In the following, seven aspects highlighting the specific body and man's very existence which is based upon it, with its character and the specific relevance of practices of concomitant bodily presence and vulnerability. Through the intangible cultural heritage are treated in turn (Wulf et alii staging of practices of intangible cultural heritage, cultural 2004a, 2004b, 2010, 2011): communalities are produced, and this production process is not only linguistic and communicative, but also bodily and • the human body as medium, material. People stage themselves and their relations, and in • practices of communication and interaction, so doing produce culture. In staging and performing intangible cultural practices, they bring forth cultural orders • mimetic learning and practical knowledge, which express, among other things, power relations between • the performativity of cultural practices, the members of various social strata, between generations and between the sexes. By virtue of being performed and • central structural and functional elements, expressed in bodily arrangements, the practices of intangible cultural heritage take on the appearance of being "natural" • difference and otherness, and universally accepted. By inviting us to "join in and play • inter-cultural learning. along", they facilitate the unquestioning acceptance of the cultural orders which show themselves in them. Whoever The human body as medium declines the invitation to "join in an play along" in a cultural In contrast to architectural monuments, which are easily community puts himself beyond the pale, is excluded and identified and protected, the forms of intangible cultural can become a scapegoat and thus a surface for the heritage are much more difficult to pick out, to convey and projection for negativity and violence (Girard 1982). to conserve. Whereas the architectural oeuvres of world cultural heritage are fashioned from relatively durable Practices of communication and interaction material, the forms of intangible cultural heritage are subject For the genesis and practice of religion, society and to historic and cultural change to a far higher degree. While community, politics and the economy, culture and art, architecture produces material cultural objects, the human learning and education, the practices of intangible cultural body is the medium of the forms and figurations of intangible heritage are essential. With their help, the world and the cultural heritage. That is the case in 1. oral traditions and modalities of human life are ordered and interpreted; within modes of expression, including language; 2. the performing them, they are experienced and constructed. The practices arts; 3. social practices, rituals and celebrations; 4. naturist of intangible cultural heritage create a connection between practices; 5. the skills and knowledge of traditional arts and past, present and future; they make continuity and change, crafts, among others. If we wish to grasp the specific structure and society as well as experiences of transition and character of intangible cultural heritage, we need above all transcendence possible. to reflect and acknowledge the fundamental role which the In the current political situation, which is characterised in human body plays as its carrier. many parts of the globe by debates about the disintegration A number of consequences ensue from the fact that the of the social, the loss of values and the search for cultural human body is the medium of intangible cultural heritage. Its identity, these practices are increasingly gaining in bodily practices are determined by the passage of time and importance. There is an expectation that they will bridge the the temporality of the human body. They depend on the gap between individuals, communities and cultures. The dynamics of time and space. Unlike cultural monuments, the practices of intangible cultural heritage appear today to practices of intangible cultural heritage are not fixed. They create cultural coherence mainly by virtue of presenting are subject to processes of transformation linked to social forms which, by their ethical and aesthetic content, offer change and exchange. Interlaced with the dynamics of life, security in times where the big picture is easily lost from sight. they are characterised by their process-like nature and more The practices of intangible cultural heritage hold out the susceptible to the pull of homogenising tendencies. promise of compensating for the experience of losing As the practices of intangible cultural heritage are contextualisation in a community – an experience associated performances and mises-en-scènes of the body, they tend to with modernity – of compensating for the experience of have greater social weight than mere discourses. For with losing a sense of cultural identity and authenticity – their bodily presence, the cultural actors invest the associated with the tendencies to individualisation, community with "something extra" in addition to the spoken virtualisation and simulation as well as with the erosion of word. This "something extra" is rooted in the materiality of the social and cultural systems. Special guest - Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf 5 45 Cultural communities constitute themselves through The importance of mimetic processes for the transfer of verbal and non-verbal forms of interaction and practices of intangible cultural heritage can hardly be communication. Many of the practices of intangible cultural overestimated. These processes are sensual; they are tied to heritage are, as it were, performed on "stages"; by means of the human body, they relate to human behaviour and staging and performing, forms of cohesiveness and intimacy, seldom unfold consciously. Through mimetic processes, of communal solidarity and integration are produced. human beings incorporate images and patterns of practices Communities are distinguished not only by a collectively of intangible cultural heritage, which subsequently become shared symbolic knowledge, but to an even greater degree part of their inner world of images and imaginations. Mimetic by cultural action, in which they stage and perform such processes transfer the world of intangible cultural heritage knowledge in the practices of intangible cultural heritage, into the inner world of man. They contribute to a cultural thereby expressing the self-projection and reproduction of enrichment
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