Museum Volkenkunde Leiden, source community participation Video: Cultural Heritage
The process of defining heritage is filled with power relations. Until recent years the term heritage has been used to refer to buildings, monuments and physical and tangible artefacts. Critics, often from non-Western countries, have called for a greater attention for intangible heritage, which represents their identities more strongly. New strategies that includes local communities within the process of heritage construction are currently being discussed. Cultural heritage as a collective responsibility enables communities to control their future by understanding their past.
Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /
Agenda
Cultural Heritage and Shared Knowledge
A panel discussion on the concept and use of cultural heritage.
Network
Patrick Abungu
Curator
Silvia Karolina Acuna Aviles
Social Archaeologist, Art Historian
Ziva Domingos
Curator, Lecturer
Teresa Morales
Professor
Ciema Silva de Melo
Antropologist
Jagath Weerasinghe
Archaeologist, Artist
