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Elements inscribed in 2012 on the Urgent Safeguarding List, the Representative List INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE and the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices

What is it? UNESCO’S ROLE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL SECRETARIAT Intangible cultural heritage includes practices, representations, Since its adoption by the 32nd session of the General Conference in HERITAGE FUND OF THE CONVENTION expressions, knowledge and know-how that communities recognize 2003, the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural The Fund for the Safeguarding of the The List of elements of intangible cultural as part of their cultural heritage. Passed down from generation to Heritage has experienced an extremely rapid ratification, with over Intangible Cultural Heritage can contribute heritage is updated every year by the generation, it is constantly recreated by communities in response to 150 States Parties in the less than 10 years of its existence. In line with financially and technically to State Intangible Cultural Heritage Section. their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, the Convention’s primary objective – to safeguard intangible cultural safeguarding measures. If you would like If you would like to receive more to participate, please send a contribution. about the 2003 Convention for the providing them with a sense of identity and continuity. heritage – the UNESCO Secretariat has devised a capacity- Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural building strategy that helps states worldwide, first, to create institutional Donations in US$ should be made to: Heritage, please contact: and professional environments that encourage the sustainable UNESCO account: Why does it matter? safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and, second, to promote 949-1-191558 Intangible Cultural Heritage Section CHASE JP MORGAN BANK UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization broad public knowledge and support for the Convention’s concepts and International Money Transfer Division 7, place de Fontenoy (UNESCO) strives to cooperate with countries around the world for objectives. This strategy entails a long-term, multifaceted approach 4 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn 75352 07 SP, the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. This heritage, that involves many different stakeholders. UNESCO provides assistance New York, NY 11245 Tel.: + 33 (0)1 45 68 43 43 in revising policies and legislation, redesigning institutional of America Fax: + 33 (0)1 45 68 57 52 which is both traditional and modern, nourishes cultural diversity and Swift code: human creativity. It can help to meet many contemporary challenges infrastructures, developing inventory methods and systems and CHASUS 33-ABA: 0210-0002-1 Email: ich_com@.org of sustainable development such as social cohesion, , food fostering the technical skills required to safeguard intangible cultural Website: www.unesco.org/culture/ich heritage. security, health and the sustainable management of natural resources. Donations in EUR should be made to:

It is also a significant source of income and job creation. For the purposes UNESCO account: Published in 2013 by the United Nations Educational, INTANGIBLE of the Convention, consideration will be given solely to such intangible 30003-03301-00037291909-97 Scientific and Cultural Organization The inscriptions SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France CULTURAL cultural heritage as is compatible with existing international human Paris Seine Amont Printed in France by UNESCO rights instruments, as well as with the requirements of sustainable The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 10, rue Thénard © UNESCO 2013 HERITAGE development and mutual respect among communities. has several systems for safeguarding at the international level. The 75005 Paris, France Cover photo: © 2011, Centre for Research and Development of , . Photographer: Dede Priana List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding Swift code: SOGEFRPPAFS has 31 elements, following the seventh session of the Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Paris, Please indicate that the contribution France, in December 2012. There are also 257 elements on the is a donation to the Intangible Cultural Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as Heritage Fund. well as 10 programmes included in the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.

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ALGERIA — Rites and craftsmanship associated with the wedding — , of the of — Buddhist chanting of : recitation of sacred Buddhist texts — Fiesta of the patios in Cordova © 2010, Claveles y Gitanillas Association costume tradition of Tlemcen © 2011, Leyla Belkaïd © 2007, Recife Town Hall in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region, Jammu and Kashmir, India © 2008, Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. Photographer: Bappa Ray

ARMENIA — Performance of the Armenian epic of ‘Daredevils — Strategy for training coming generations of Fujian INDONESIA — multifunctional knotted or woven bag, handcraft of MALI, BURKINA FASO and CÔTE D’IVOIRE — Cultural practices — festival © Information and Documentation Centre of Folk Culture/ Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Sassoun’ or ‘David of Sassoun’ © 2004, “House of Sassoun” NGO. Photographer: Avag Avagyan practitioners the people of © 2011, Centre for Research and Development of Culture. Photographer: Dede Priana and expressions linked to the of the Senufo communities © 2009, Fujian Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Centre. Photographer: Hong Shijian of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire © 2012, Cultural Heritage Division, Côte d’Ivoire. Photographer: Konin Aka

AUSTRIA — Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Imst, Austria © 2004, Melitta Abber — Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi, Quibdó © 2007, León Dario Peláez (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) — Qālišuyān rituals of Mašhad-e Ardehāl MEXICO — Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous UGANDA — Bigwala, gourd and of the Busoga in Kāšān © 2010, ICHHTO Research Centre. Photographer: Abbas Torabzadeh Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage Kingdom in Uganda © 2011, James Isabirye of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico © 2009, Cumbre Tajín. Photographer: Rafael Silverio

AZERBAIJAN — Craftsmanship and performance art of the tag">Tar, — multipart of , southern Croatia — Traditional violin craftsmanship in MOROCCO — Cherry festival in Sefrou © 2010, Sefrou Town Council UNITED EMIRATES, AUSTRIA, , CZECH REPUBLIC, a long-necked string © 2011, Ministry of Culture. Photographer: Ivana Boškovic´ Ivicˇic´ © 2010, Terra d’Ombra Production. Photographer: Marcella Pizzi FRANCE, , REPUBLIC OF , , MOROCCO, © 2010, Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Photographer: Mamed Rahimov QATAR, , SPAIN and SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC — , a living human heritage © 2007, Czech Falconry Club, Czech Republic. Photographer: Bohumil Straka

BELGIUM — Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse — Traditional of the Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat — Nachi no Dengaku, a religious performing art held at OMAN — Al ‘azi, elegy, processional march and poetry UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and OMAN — Al-, traditional © 2010, Belmar. Photographer: Jacques Mabille © 2010, National Institute of Cultural Heritage. Photographer: Olivier Auverlau the Nachi fire festival © 2009, Cultural Heritage Division, Wakayama Prefectural Board of Education © 2009, Ministry of Heritage and Culture. Photographer: al-Shohri chanted poetry in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman © 2011, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman. Photographer: Manoharan

BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) — Ichapekene Piesta, the biggest FRANCE — Fest-Noz, festive gathering based on the collective practice REPUBLIC OF KOREA — , lyrical folk in the Republic VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF) — Venezuela’s Dancing Devils festival of San Ignacio de Moxos © 2010, Fama Producciones. Photographer: Christian Mújica of traditional of Brittany © 2006, Myriam Jégat of Korea © 2009, Jeongseon Arirang Research Institute of Corpus Christi © 2010, Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural. Photographer: Consuelo Arriaga Graphic design & layout: Emmanuel Labard — www.l-e-studio.net

BOTSWANA — Earthenware pottery-making skills in Botswana’s HUNGARY — Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery of a traditional — Ala-kiyiz and , art of Kyrgyz traditional — Craftsmanship of Horezu ceramics VIET NAM — Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Tho. © 2011, National Centre for the Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture/Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Kgatleng District © 2011, Bakgatla ba Kgafela. Photographer: S.O. Rampete community © 2012, Péter Kohalmi felt carpets © 2009, Urmat Osmoev © 2011, Institute of Culture and Arts Studies. Photographer: Bùi Quang Thanh Photographer: Corina Mihaˇescu Representative List of the AUSTRIA morning, with floats and carnival groups in IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) ROMANIA Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Imst, the afternoon. Towards the end, the patron Qālišuyān rituals of Mašhad-e Craftsmanship of Horezu ceramics Austria saint travels down the Atrato River and Ardehāl in Kāšān Intangible Cultural Heritage Horezu ceramics are a unique traditional people celebrate the dawn with devotional 2012 The city of Imst celebrates its Fasnacht The Qālišuyān rituals commemorate Soltān craft, handmade in Vâlcea County, Romania. hymns and perform the Grand Procession of of Humanity carnival every four years on the Sunday Ali, a holy martyr among the people of Kāšān The potters select and extract the earth, WWW.UNESCO.ORG/CULTURE/ICH the Saint. before the Christian season of Lent. The and Fin. According to legend, his body which is then cleaned, cut, watered, kneaded, central festivity is Schemenlaufen, a and carried in a carpet to a stream trampled and mixed – transforming it into a The Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage procession of masked dancers in costume. where it was purified. Qālišuyān takes place clay body from which they produce redware. The main characters wear and perform CROATIA at the Soltān Ali mausoleum, where a carpet Each object is shaped with a special finger of Humanity aims to ensure better visibility of the intangible a special dance that involves leaping and is washed in a holy stream by a huge technique, decorated with traditional motifs Klapa multipart singing of Dalmatia, bowing. Masked chimney-sweeps climb gathering. The people of Xāve sprinkle in vivid colours and then fired. The potters cultural heritage and to raise awareness of its importance southern Croatia houses, witches shout at the audience rosewater on the carpet, which is then rely on traditional tools: mixers, potter’s while encouraging dialogue that respects cultural diversity. accompanied by a playing dissonant The Dalmatian multipart vocal tradition delivered to the people of Fin, who rinse it in wheels, combs, tools for decoration and Twenty-seven elements of intangible cultural heritage were melodies, and bears demonstrate their known as Klapa is characterized by a cappella running water and use decorated wooden wood-burning stoves. strength. The carnival unites the whole homophonic singing and simple musical sticks to sprinkle it with rosewater. The List of Intangible Cultural inscribed on this List in 2012 by the Intergovernmental population of Imst in a common goal: forms and is transmitted orally. Each group people of Kāšān contribute a prayer-carpet Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural organizing the Fasnacht in accordance with is led by its first tenor, followed by the other to the ritual. Heritage in Need of Urgent long-standing tradition. tenors, baritones and basses. When SPAIN Heritage. performing, the singers stand in a tight Fiesta of the patios in Cordova Safeguarding semicircle; the first tenor starts off the For twelve days in May, the city of Cordova singing, followed by the others. The aim is to ITALY celebrates the fiesta of the patios. The patio achieve the most harmonious blend of Traditional violin craftsmanship houses are a characteristic communal Craftsmanship and performance art of voices. Klapa deal with love, real-life in Cremona The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent cultural space located in the city’s historic the Tar, a long-necked string musical situations and the local environment. Cremonese violin craftsmanship is centre and they boast an abundant array of Safeguarding aims to enhance global awareness and mobilize Elements inscribed Short poems are improvised and exchanged instrument renowned for the traditional process of plants. During the fiesta, the inhabitants on a multinational basis between two groups of riders, often in the international cooperation in order to safeguard intangible The Tar, a long-necked plucked , is fashioning violins, violas, and welcome visitors and invite them to enjoy the form of antiphonal singing. The most crafted and played throughout Azerbaijan. contrabasses. Each violin-maker produces patio gardens and appreciate the skill cultural heritage whose viability is at risk despite the best important aspect is the social bonding ECUADOR It features in numerous traditional musical between three and six instruments a year, involved in their creation. The patios host MALI, BURKINA FASO during the oral exchange of verses. Al- Traditional weaving of the Ecuadorian efforts of the communities or States Parties. It records the genres and is played at weddings, social hand-shaping and assembling more than traditional singing, guitar-playing and CÔTE D’IVOIRE Taghrooda is also chanted at weddings and toquilla straw hat gatherings, festive events and . seventy pieces of wood around an inner and dancing, and ancestral practices of safeguarding measures drawn up by the State Party, with the Cultural practices and expressions other festivities, particularly camel races. Its The hollow body, made of mulberry wood, The toquilla straw hat is woven from the mould. Each part is made from a specific sustainable communal coexistence are linked to the balafon of the Senufo themes range from romantic love, friendship, widest participation of the communities, that may then be is shaped in the form of a figure eight and fibres of a palm tree found on the Ecuadorian wood that has been carefully selected and shared with visitors through the offering of communities of Mali, Burkina Faso aspirations and praise of tribal ties to the is held horizontally, while the eleven metal coast. Farmers cultivate the fields and naturally seasoned. The highly skilled food and drink. given priority for financial support from the Intangible and Côte d’Ivoire settlement of disputes and contemporary strings are plucked with a plectrum. harvest the stems before separating the fibre violin-makers use their individual themes. Cultural Heritage Fund. Four elements of intangible cultural The balafon of the Senufo communities of Craftspeople pass on their knowledge to from the outer skin. The fibre is then boiled techniques and personal knowledge to create heritage were inscribed on this List in 2012 by the Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire is a their apprentices, and players transmit their to remove the chlorophyll and dried for unique instruments: no two violins are alike. pentatonic composed of eleven skills both orally and by demonstration to bleaching. Using this fibre, weavers produce TURKEY Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the to twenty-one keys of different lengths young people within their community. the pattern, the and the brim of the Mesir Macunu festival Elements inscribed arranged on a trapezoidal frame with gourd hat. Finally, the hat is washed and bleached Intangible Cultural Heritage. on a national basis The Mesir Macunu festival of resonators of varying sizes beneath the keys. before being ironed and shaped over a JAPAN commemorates the recovery of Suleiman the Under the instruction of a teacher, the wooden mould. Weaving a hat can take from Nachi no Dengaku, a religious Magnificent’s mother from an illness after student first learns to play a children’s BELGIUM one day to eight months, depending on its performing art held at the Nachi ALGERIA being treated by a paste known as mesir balafon before advancing to full-sized ones. Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse quality and the fineness of the work. fire festival Rites and craftsmanship associated macunu. Every March, the paste is prepared, Played solo or as part of an ensemble during with the wedding costume tradition The Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse Nachi no Dengaku is a Japanese folk wrapped, blessed and scattered from the festivities, prayers, work, funerals and other BOTSWANA KYRGYZSTAN of Tlemcen are of great importance to the cultural performing art danced at the Kumano Nachi domes of the Sultan Mosque. Thousands of occasions, the balafon is a symbol of Earthenware pottery-making skills Ala-kiyiz and Shyrdak, art of Kyrgyz identity of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse in shrine during the annual Nachi fire festival. people come from different regions of Turkey community identity. During the wedding ritual of Tlemcen in FRANCE in Botswana’s Kgatleng District traditional felt carpets Wallonia, Belgium. These military marches This key component of the festival takes the to try and catch the pieces as they fall. Many north-western Algeria, the bride is dressed Fest-Noz, festive gathering based on commemorate the dedication of the village form of ritual dancing to the accompaniment believe that by doing so, their dreams of Women of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela Traditional felt carpets are one of the in a traditionally woven golden dress, the collective practice of traditional church and involve the entire village. The of and percussion to ensure an marriage, work and children will come true community of Botswana practise foremost arts of the Kyrgyz people. The surrounded by her friends and married dances of Brittany escorted processions consist of several abundant harvest. It is performed by one within the year. earthenware pottery-making skills, using knowledge, skills, diversity, ornamentation UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, female relations; symbolic henna designs are companies, formed of tens, even hundreds of Fest-Noz is a festive gathering that features player, four drummers and four players clay, weathered sandstone and other and ceremonies involved provide the Kyrgyz AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, applied to her hands and an older woman marchers. The participants, all dressed in traditional Breton dances, accompanied by of the Binzasara (a string of wooden or materials to make pots of different forms, with a sense of identity and continuity. CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, helps her don an embroidered velvet caftan, military uniforms, escort the religious singing or instrumental music. The Breton clappers). Between eight and ten designs and styles that relate to the The making of these carpets is a communal HUNGARY, REPUBLIC OF jewellery and a conical hat. Girls in Tlemcen procession, to the accompaniment of , cultural movement has preserved this performers dance to the music in a variety of VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF) traditional rituals and beliefs of the enterprise, led by older women in rural, KOREA, MONGOLIA, are initiated into the costume tradition at an fifes and song. Young people march expression of a living and constantly formations. There are twenty-two Venezuela’s Dancing Devils community. The pots are used for storing mountainous areas, but the tradition is in MOROCCO, QATAR, SAUDI early age, while the craftsmanship involved alongside their parents in companies such as renewed practice of inherited dance repertoires, each of which takes forty-five of Corpus Christi beer, fermenting sorghum meal, fetching danger of disappearing. The number of ARABIA, SPAIN and SYRIAN in making the precious wedding costume is the Young Guard. repertoires with several hundred variations minutes to perform. water, cooking, ancestor worship and practitioners is decreasing and the absence ARAB REPUBLIC handed down from generation to generation. During the annual celebrations of the feast and thousands of tunes. Fest-Noz is traditional healing rituals. The practice of government safeguarding measures, the Falconry, a living human heritage of Corpus Christi in the small communities characterized by an intense camaraderie is in danger of dying out because of lack of interest shown by the younger of the central coast of Venezuela, dancers Falconry is the traditional activity of keeping among singers, and dancers, the decreasing number of highly skilled generation, the dominance of cheap disguised as masked devils dance backwards and training falcons to take quarry in its (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) significant social and intergenerational MOROCCO potters, the low prices for finished goods synthetic carpets and the poor quality and as a sign of penitence while an official of natural state. It is practised in many Ichapekene Piesta, the biggest festival diversity, and openness to others. It is at the Cherry festival in Sefrou and the increasing use of mass-produced low availability of raw materials are all Performance of the Armenian epic the carries forth the Blessed countries worldwide. Originally a way of of San Ignacio de Moxos centre of an intense ferment of musical containers. exacerbating the situation. of ‘Daredevils of Sassoun’ or ‘David For three days in June each year, the local Sacrament. At the climax of the celebration, obtaining food, falconry is today identified experiences and has spawned a veritable of Sassoun’ The Ichapekene Piesta festival combines population of Sefrou celebrates the region’s the devils surrender to the Sacrament, with camaraderie and sharing. It is mainly cultural economy. the legend of the victory of Saint Ignatius of natural and cultural beauty, symbolized by symbolizing the triumph of good over evil. found along migration flyways and corridors The traditional Armenian epic, the Loyola with Moxeño indigenous beliefs. the cherry and that year’s newly chosen The dancers, or promeseros (promise- and is practised by amateurs and ‘Daredevils of Sassoun’, tells the story of INDONESIA UGANDA The festivities involve fireworks, singing, Cherry Queen. The highlight of the festival keepers), are lifelong members of a professionals of all ages, both men and David of Sassoun, a youth who defends his Noken multifunctional knotted Bigwala, gourd trumpet music the celebration of masses, funeral wakes, is a parade with performing troupes, rural confraternity that transmits the historical women. Falconers develop a strong homeland in an unequal against evil. HUNGARY or woven bag, handcraft of the people and dance of the Busoga Kingdom alms-giving and feasts. The main rituals are and urban music, majorettes and bands, and memory and ancestral traditions of the relationship and a spiritual bond with their Passages from sections of this heroic epic Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery of Papua in Uganda a re-enactment of Saint Ignatius’s victory and floats featuring local producers. The cherry communities. birds and great commitment is required to are recounted and sung in a lyrical, rhythmic of a traditional community a choreographed procession of participants festival provides an opportunity for the A Noken is a knotted net or woven bag that The Basoga people of Uganda traditionally breed, train, handle and fly the falcons. style. It is usually performed seated, to the disguised as masked ancestors and animals. The folk art of the Roman Catholic Matyó entire city to display its activities and is handmade from wood fibre or leaves by practise Bigwala music and dance during musical accompaniment of a , at They reinforce the importance of a respect community in and around the town of achievements. communities in the Papua and West Papua royal celebrations and on social occasions. weddings, birthdays, christenings and for nature and allow the Moxeños to be Mezőkövesd, in north-eastern Hungary, is VIET NAM . It is used for A set of five or more monotone gourd major national cultural events. There are reborn into the Christian tradition in the characterized by floral motifs that are found Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Tho carrying produce, the catch brought back by is accompanied by drums, singers UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 160 variants and performances may . presence of their ancestral spirits. in flat-stitch embroidery, interior decoration hunters, firewood, babies or small animals as and dancers. The narrate the history of and OMAN last up to two hours. Every year, pilgrims converge on the Hùng and architecture. The national popularity of OMAN well as for shopping and storing things in the the Basoga people, focusing in particular on Al-Taghrooda, traditional Bedouin at Nghı˜a Lı˜nh mountain in Phú Tho Matyó embroidery has turned it into a form Al ‘azi, elegy, processional march . home. Nokens may also be worn or given as their king. At present, there are only four chanted poetry in the United Arab Province to commemorate their ancestors of supplementary income, enabling women and poetry peace offerings. The number of people elderly master bearers with skills in Bigwala Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman and pray for good weather, abundant BRAZIL to buy the fine fabrics and supplies needed to making and using Nokens is decreasing, performance. As a result, Bigwala is Al ‘azi is a genre of sung poetry that takes harvests, good luck and good health. The Al-Taghrooda traditional Bedouin chanted Frevo, performing arts of make elaborate costumes. Usually practised however, in the face of competition from performed infrequently and faces a real the form of a contest punctuated by important festival is celebrated for one week poetry is composed and recited by men the Carnival of Recife as a communal activity, embroidery factory-made bags and the problems threat to its survival. flourishes, steps and poetic exchanges during the third lunar month. Local villagers travelling on camelback through desert areas strengthens interpersonal relationships and involved in obtaining raw materials. Frevo is a Brazilian artistic expression between a singer–poet and a choir. The poet, dress in splendid costumes and compete to of the United Arab Emirates and Oman. community cohesion while allowing for comprising music and dance and is who recites both improvised and memorized provide the best palanquin and the most individual artistic expression. performed mainly during the Carnival of poems in Arabic, guides the other highly valued objects of worship. Recife. Its frenetic, vigorous draws participants. They must pay attention to Communities make rice-based delicacies and upon a fusion of musical genres such as his movements and recitation and respond engage in verbal and folk arts performances, marches, Brazilian , square dance, INDIA with the appropriate replies and movements. beating, , prayers and pieces from the classical The poems express pride of belonging and and petitions. Buddhist chanting of Ladakh: repertoire, all performed by martial bands eulogize the tribe, important figures or recitation of sacred Buddhist texts and accompanied by fanfares. The music is historical events. in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region, CHINA MEXICO essentially urban, and like its accompanying Register of Best Jammu and Kashmir, India Strategy for training coming Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: dance, the Passo, is vigorous and subversive. Safeguarding Practices generations of Fujian puppetry the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its The dance revolves around the skill and In the monasteries and villages of the practitioners contribution to safeguarding the agility of fighters, who improvise Ladakh region of India, Buddhist lamas REPUBLIC OF KOREA intangible cultural heritage of the leaps to the electrifying sound of steel chant sacred texts containing the spirit, Arirang, lyrical folk song in the Fujian puppetry is a Chinese performing art Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico orchestras and bands. and teachings of the Buddha. Republic of Korea consisting of string and hand . Faced The Register of Best Safeguarding Practices includes The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand by recent threats to its transmission, local The Centre for Indigenous Arts was designed Arirang is a popular form of Korean folk gestures and various musical instruments programmes, projects and activities that the Intergovernmental communities drew up the 2008–2020 as a response to the Totonac people’s song, the outcome of many collective while praying for the spiritual and moral Strategy for the Training of Coming long-standing desire to create an educational contributions. Essentially a simple song, it Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural COLOMBIA well-being of the people, for purification and Generations of Fujian Puppetry institution to transmit their teachings, art, consists of the refrain ‘Arirang, arirang, Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi, peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil Heritage considers best reflect the principles and objectives Practitioners. The strategy involves the wide values and culture. The centre’s structure arariyo’ and two lines that differ from region Quibdó spirits or to invoke the blessing of various participation of practitioners, local people recreates a traditional settlement comprising to region. While dealing with various of the Convention. It aims to promote international exchange Buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities and and educational institutions in an attempt to ‘house-schools’, with each ‘house’ Every September and October the twelve universal themes, the musical and literary Rinpoches. Acolytes learn under the rigorous and cooperation for programmes with proven success in enhance the sustainability of this performing specializing in one of the Totonac arts, such Franciscan districts of Quibdó hold the composition invites improvisation, imitation supervision of senior monks. safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Two programmes art. The initiatives include: providing as pottery, , or traditional Fiesta de San Pacho, a religious celebration and singing in unison. A great virtue is its professional training; preparing teaching healing. The method used to hand down of the community’s African-Colombian respect for human creativity, freedom were selected for the Register in 2012 by the Committee. materials; setting up performance venues, knowledge to apprentices at the house- Chocó identity. It begins with a Catholic of expression and empathy. Everyone can training institutes and exhibition halls; schools is integral and holistic. ‘inaugural mass’ that incorporates create new lyrics, adding to the song’s awareness-raising through formal and traditional dances and music on the chirimía, regional, historical and genre variations and non-formal education; regional and an -like instrument. A carnival parade encouraging cultural diversity. international cooperation; and artistic follows, with floats, costumes, dances and exchanges. chirimía. Masses are celebrated in the

Traditional firing technology Chhau dance (2010) Dainichido Bugaku (2009) Cumulative list Elements inscribed Botswana of Longquan celadon (2009) Czech Republic  folk songs and dances  (2009) Mexico Turkey on a national Earthenware pottery-making skills Traditional handicrafts Ride of the Kings in the south-east of Rajasthan (2010) Hayachine Kagura (2009) Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: Darangen epic of the Maranao Mesir Macunu festival (2012) basis in Botswana’s Kgatleng District of making (2009) of the Czech Republic (2011) Mudiyettu, ritual Hitachi Furyumono (2009) the Centre for Indigenous Arts people of Lake Lanao (2008) Ceremonial Keşkek tradition (2011) 2008 – 2 0 1 2 (2012) Traditional Li techniques: Shrovetide door-to-door and dance of Kerala (2010) Koshikijima no Toshidon (2009) and its contribution to Hudhud chants of the Ifugao Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival spinning, dyeing, weaving processions and masks in the , religious festival Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: safeguarding the intangible (2008) (2010) Albania and embroidering (2009) villages of the Hlinecko area and ritual theatre of the Garhwal techniques of making ramie fabric cultural heritage of the Totonac Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi ritual (2010) Albanian folk iso- (2008) Brazil Xi’an wind and percussion (2010) , India (2009) in Uonuma region, Niigata people of Veracruz, Mexico (2012) Traditional Sohbet meetings (2010) The cumulative list below shows the 298 elements inscribed Frevo, performing arts of the ensemble (2009) Slovácko Verbuňk, recruit dances Kutiyattam, theatre Prefecture (2009) , string music, song Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition (2009) Carnival of Recife (2012) Yueju (2009) (2008) (2008) Oku-noto no Aenokoto (2009) and trumpet (2011) , urban popular song Karagöz (2009) between 2008 and 2012 on the List of Intangible Cultural Algeria Call for projects of the National  and its music (2008) , the traditional perform­- Sekishu-Banshi, papermaking Parachicos in the traditional of Portugal (2011) Arts of the , public Rites and craftsmanship associated Programme of Intangible Heritage Kun Qu opera (2008) ance of the (2008) in the Iwami region of Shimane January feast of Chiapa storytellers (2008) Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, the Representative with the wedding costume tradition (2011) Uygur of (2008) Dominican Republic Tradition of Vedic chanting (2008) Prefecture (2009) de Corzo (2010) Mevlevi Sema ceremony (2008) of Tlemcen (2012) ’s Living Museum (2011)  dance drama tradition (2008) Traditional Ainu dance (2009) , traditional song Republic of Korea List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and the Ahellil of Gourara (2008) Yaokwa, the Cultural space of the Brotherhood Yamahoko, the float ceremony of the P’urhépecha (2010) Arirang, lyrical folk song in the people’s ritual for the maintenance Colombia of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Indonesia of the Kyoto Gion festival (2009) Traditional Republic of Korea (2012) Uganda Register of Best Safeguarding Practices. The 90 elements of social and cosmic order (2011) Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi, Villa Mella (2008) Noken multifunctional knotted  theatre (2008) – ancestral, ongoing community , tightrope walking (2011) Bigwala, gourd trumpet music Armenia Oral and graphic expressions Quibdó (2012) or woven bag, handcraft of the Ningyo Johruri culture, the Michoacán paradigm Taekkyeon, a traditional Korean and dance of the Busoga Kingdom formerly proclaimed Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Performance of the Armenian epic of the Wajapi (2008) Traditional knowledge people of Papua (2012) theatre (2008) (2010) martial art (2011) in Uganda (2012) of ‘Daredevils of Sassoun’ or ‘David  de Roda of the Recôncavo of the jaguar shamans Ecuador  dance (2011) Nôgaku theatre (2008) Places of memory and living Weaving of Mosi (fine ramie)  making in Uganda Heritage of Humanity were all incorporated into the of Sassoun’ (2012) of (2008) of Yuruparí (2011) Traditional weaving of the Indonesian (2010) traditions of the Otomí- in the Hansan region (2011) (2008) Armenian cross-stones art.  music and traditional Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat Education and training in Chichimecas people of Tolimán: Daemokjang, traditional wooden Representative List in 2008, as provided by Article 31 of the Symbolism and craftsmanship of chants from Colombia’s South (2012) Indonesian intangible Jordan the Peña de Bernal, guardian architecture (2010) (2010) Bulgaria Pacific region (2010) cultural heritage for elementary, Cultural space of the Bedu of a sacred territory (2009) , lyric song cycles United Arab Emirates Convention. The 16 elements inscribed on a multinational Duduk and its music (2008) Nestinarstvo, messages from the Wayuu normative system, applied junior, senior, vocational school in and Wadi Rum (2008) Ritual ceremony of the Voladores accompanied by an orchestra Al Sadu, traditional weaving skills past: the Panagyr of Saints by the Pütchipü’üi (palabrero) Egypt and polytechnic students, (2009) (2010) in the United Arab Emirates (2011) basis are shown at the beginning to highlight the importance Constantine and Helena (2010) Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic (2008) in collaboration with the Batik Indigenous festivity dedicated  (2009) Austria in the village of Bulgari (2009) Carnaval de Negros y Blancos Museum in Pekalongan (2009) Kenya to the dead (2008)  (2009) of international cooperation. Schemenlaufen, the carnival of Bistritsa Babi, archaic polyphony, (2009) Indonesian Batik (2009) Traditions and practices Jeju Chilmeoridang Uruguay Imst, Austria (2012) dances and rituals from Holy Week processions Indonesian (2008) associated with the Kayas Yeongdeunggut (2009)  and its socio-cultural the Shoplouk region (2008) in Popayán (2009) Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing  puppet theatre (2008) in the sacred forests of the Mongolia  Nori (2009) space: a community practice (2009) For more information, consult the following link: Carnival of Barranquilla (2008) tradition (2009) Mijikenda (2009) Folk performance  (2009) www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/lists/ Azerbaijan Cultural space of Palenque  cultural space (2008) technique of Limbe performances – Gangneung Danoje festival Craftsmanship and performance de San Basilio (2008) Iran (Islamic Republic of) (2011) (2008) art of the Tar, a long-necked string Royal Ballet of Cambodia (2008) Qālišuyān rituals of Mašhad-e Kyrgyzstan Mongolian traditional art  epic chant (2008) Katta Ashula (2009) musical instrument (2012) Sbek Thom, Khmer shadow theatre France Ardehāl in Kāšān (2012) Ala-kiyiz and Shyrdak, art of of Khöömei (2010) Royal ancestral ritual in the Jongmyo Cultural space of Boysun District Traditional art of Azerbaijani (2008) Costa Rica Fest-Noz, festive gathering based Naqqāli, Iranian dramatic Kyrgyz traditional felt carpets , Mongolian traditional shrine and its music (2008) (2008) carpet weaving in the Republic of Oxherding and oxcart traditions in on the collective practice of story-telling (2011) (2012) festival (2010) Azerbaijan (2010) Costa Rica (2008) traditional dances of Brittany Traditional skills of building Art of Akyns, Kyrgyz epic Mongol , Mongolian Element inscribed Elements inscribed Gambia and Senegal Art of Azerbaijani Ashiq (2009) (2012) and sailing Iranian Lenj boats tellers (2008) traditional (2009) Romania Vanuatu on the List of Intangible on a multinational Kankurang, Manding initiatory Azerbaijani (2008) Polyphonic singing of the Aka Equitation in the French tradition in the Persian Gulf (2011) Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic Craftsmanship of Horezu ceramics Vanuatu sand drawings (2008) Cultural Heritage basis rite (2008) Pygmies of Central Africa (2008) Côte d’Ivoire (2011) Music of the Bakhshis (2009) (2012) in Need of Urgent Gbofe of Afounkaha, the music of Compagnonnage, network of Khorasan (2010) Traditional music of the Tsuur  (2009) Safeguarding Bangladesh the transverse trumps for on-the-job transmission of Pahlevani and Zoorkhanei Suiti cultural space (2009) (2009) Căluş ritual (2008) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and Uruguay Malawi, Mozambique  songs (2008) China of the Tagbana community (2008) knowledge and identities (2010) rituals (2010) Traditional music of the Morin Venezuela’s Dancing Devils of Tango (2009) and Zambia Strategy for training coming Craftsmanship of Alençon needle Ritual dramatic art of Ta‘zīye Khuur (2008) Corpus Christi (2012) Element inscribed Gule Wamkulu (2008) generations of Fujian puppetry -making (2010) (2010) Russian Federation on the Representative List Belarus practitioners (2012) Croatia Gastronomic meal of the French Traditional skills of carpet Sutartinės, Lithuanian multipart Cultural space and oral culture of the Intangible Cultural Azerbaijan, India, Rite of the Kalyady Tsars Chinese shadow puppetry (2011) Klapa multipart singing of (2010) weaving in Fars (2010) songs (2010) Morocco of the (2008) Viet Nam Heritage of Humanity Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mali, Burkina Faso (Christmas Tsars) (2009) Hezhen Yimakan (2011) Dalmatia, southern Croatia (2012) Aubusson (2009) Traditional skills of carpet Cross-crafting and its symbolism Cherry festival in Sefrou (2012) Olonkho, Yakut heroic epos Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Tho. Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Côte d’Ivoire Acupuncture and of Bećarac singing and playing from Cantu in paghjella, a secular weaving in Kashan (2010) (2008) Cultural space of Jemaa el-Fna (2008) (2012) Turkey and Uzbekistan    Programme, project Cultural practices and expressions traditional Chinese medicine (2010) Eastern Croatia (2011) and liturgical oral tradition Radif of Iranian music (2009) Square (2008) Xoan singing of Phú Tho. Province and activity selected for Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, linked to the balafon of the Senufo Belgium  (2010) Nijemo , silent of of Corsica (2009) Moussem of Tan-Tan (2008) (2011) the Register of Best Nauroz, Nevruz (2009) communities of Mali, Burkina Faso Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse Peking opera (2010) the Dalmatian hinterland (2011)  (2009) Luxembourg Slovakia Gióng festival of Phù Ðông Safeguarding Practices and Côte d’Ivoire (2012) (2012) Watertight-bulkhead technology Gingerbread craft from Northern Scribing tradition in French Iraq Hopping procession of Echternach  and its music (2008) and Sóc temples (2010) Leuven age set ritual repertoire of Chinese junks (2010) Croatia (2010) timber framing (2009) Iraqi Maqam (2008) (2010) Mozambique Ca trù singing (2009) Belgium and France (2011) Wooden movable-type printing  singing (2010) Chopi Timbila (2008) Quan Ho. Băc Ninh folk songs Processional giants and dragons Mongolia and China A programme of cultivating of China (2010) Sinjska Alka, a knights’ tournament Spain (2009) in Belgium and France (2008) Urtiin Duu, traditional folk long ‘ludodiversity’: safeguarding Art of Chinese seal engraving (2009) in Sinj (2010) Italy Fiesta of the patios in Cordova Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music song (2008) traditional games in Flanders China engraved block printing Annual carnival ringers’ Georgian polyphonic singing Traditional violin craftsmanship Woodcrafting knowledge of the Nicaragua (2012) (2008) (2011) technique (2009) pageant from the Kastav area (2008) in Cremona (2012) (2008) El Güegüense (2008) Festivity of ‘la Mare de Déu Space of culture (2008) Belize, Guatemala, Aalst carnival (2010) Chinese calligraphy (2009) (2009) Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral de la Salut’ of Algemesí (2011) Honduras and Nicaragua Spain, Greece, Italy Houtem Jaarmarkt, annual Chinese paper-cut (2009) Festivity of Saint Blaise, the patron songs (2008) Revitalization of the traditional Language, dance and music and Morocco fair and livestock market at Chinese traditional architectural of Dubrovnik (2009) Guatemala Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet Malawi Nigeria craftsmanship of lime-making in Yemen of the (2008) Mediterranean diet (2010) Sint-Lievens-Houtem (2010) craftsmanship for timber-framed Lacemaking in Croatia (2009) Rabinal Achí dance drama tradition theatre (2008) Vimbuza healing dance (2008) Ijele masquerade (2009) Morón de la Frontera, Seville, Song of Sana’a (2008) Krakelingen and Tonnekensbrand, structures (2009) Procession Za Krizen (‘following (2008) Ifa divination system (2008) Andalusia (2011) end-of-winter bread and fire feast at Craftsmanship of the cross’) on the of Chant of the Sybil on Majorca Benin, Nigeria and Togo United Arab Emirates, Geraardsbergen (2010) (2009) (2009) (2010) Zambia Oral heritage of Gelede (2008) Austria, Belgium, Czech Procession of the Holy Blood  Boat festival (2009) Spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice Guinea Maroon heritage of Moore Town Mak Yong theatre (2008) Oman Flamenco (2010) Makishi masquerade (2008) Republic, France, Hungary, in Bruges (2009) Farmers’ dance of China’s Korean (queens) from Gorjani (2009) Cultural space of Sosso-Bala (2008) (2008) Al ‘azi, elegy, processional march Human towers (2010) Republic of Korea,  (2008) ethnic group (2009) Traditional and poetry (2012) Centre for Traditional Culture Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Gesar epic tradition (2009) of children’s wooden toys Mali Al-’ah, music and dance – School Museum of Pusol Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia, Spain and Grand song of the Dong ethnic in Hrvatsko Zagorje (2009) Hungary Japan Secret society of the Kôrêdugaw, of Oman Dhofari valleys (2010) pedagogic project (2009) Mbende Jerusarema dance (2008) Safeguarding intangible cultural Syrian Arab Republic Bhutan group (2009) Two-part singing and playing Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery Nachi no Dengaku, a religious the rite of wisdom in Mali (2011) Irrigators’ tribunals of the Spanish heritage of Aymara communities Falconry, a living human heritage Mask dance of the drums from Hua’er (2009) in the (2009) of a traditional community (2012) performing art held at the Nachi Manden Charter, proclaimed Mediterranean coast: the Council in Bolivia, Chile and Peru (2009) (2012) Drametse (2008) Manas (2009) Táncház method: a Hungarian fire festival (2012) in Kurukan Fuga (2009) Palestine of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia  belief and customs (2009) model for the transmission Mibu no Hana Taue, ritual Sanké mon, collective fishing rite Palestinian Hikaye (2008) and the Water Tribunal of the plain Mongolian art of singing, Khöömei of intangible cultural heritage of transplanting rice in Mibu, of the Sanké (2009) of Valencia (2009) Ecuador and Peru United Arab Emirates Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (2009) La (2008) (2011) Hiroshima (2011) Septennial re-roofing ceremony Whistled language of the island of Oral heritage and cultural and Oman Ichapekene Piesta, the biggest Nanyin (2009) Busó festivities at Mohács: masked Sada , sacred dancing of the Kamablon, sacred house Peru La Gomera (Canary ), the manifestations of the Zápara Al-Taghrooda, traditional Bedouin festival of San Ignacio de Moxos Qiang New Year festival (2009) end-of-winter carnival custom at Sada shrine, Shimane (2011) of (2009) , Harákmbut sung prayers (2009) people (2008) chanted poetry in the United Arab (2012) Regong arts (2009) Cyprus (2009) Kumiodori, traditional Okinawan Cultural space of the Yaaral of Peru’s Huachipaire people (2011) Mystery play of Elche (2008) Emirates and the Sultanate of Andean cosmovision Sericulture and silk craftsmanship Tsiattista poetic duelling (2011) musical theatre (2010) and Degal (2008)  to the sanctuary Patum of Berga (2008) Oman (2012) of the (2008) of China (2009) Lefkara or Lefkaritika Yuki-tsumugi, silk fabric of the Lord of Qoyllurit’i (2011) Estonia, Latvia Carnival of Oruro (2008) Tibetan opera (2009) (2009) India production technique (2010) , ritual dance of Mito and Lithuania Traditional design and practices for Buddhist chanting of Ladakh: Akiu no Taue Odori (2009) Mauritania (2010) Tonga Baltic song and dance celebrations Uzbekistan and Tajikistan building Chinese wooden arch recitation of sacred Buddhist texts Chakkirako (2009) Moorish epic T’heydinn (2011)  dance (2010) , dances and sung (2008) Shashmaqom music (2008) bridges (2009) in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh Daimokutate (2009) Taquile and its textile art (2008) speeches of Tonga (2008) region, Jammu and Kashmir, India (2012)