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The Research Of Oasis Bazzar Intangible Cultural Space And Its Protection

Posted on:2010-04-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278461747Subject:Human Geography
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Intangible cultural heritage,transmitted by word-of-mouth from generation to generation,is the oldest memory and living cultural gene of a nation,it embodies the wisdom and spirit of a nation,and an important cultural identity logo.Since 1970s,with the industrialization of the global developing countries,the culture heritages of the agricultural age have been eliminated and damaged in large-scale. To keep the ethnic memory,protect and inherit intangible cultural heritage,have become one of the important topics of the human beings social development.The international community,in response to this trend,proposed to protect intangible cultural heritage internationally. After World War II,developed countries started the theoretical study and practical work of the protection of intangible cultural heritage,and they have been normalized. As natural conditions and human conditions vary,the methods of intangible cultural heritage protection in different countries differ. The Chinese society and culture are at the stage of an overall and fierce transition,the existence and development of the intangible cultural heritage are facing an unprecedented crisis. After the Art of Chinese Uygur Muqam and the Pastoral Song of Mongolian Ethnic Group successfully being elected the Third World Cultural Heritage of UNESCO,the protection on intangible cultural heritage in China has been gradually rose to strategic height of the national cultural security. The practical work has accessed to the census,the declaration stage,and two groups of national-level intangible cultural heritage masterpieces have been approved. Researches on intangible cultural heritage mainly include: concept and content,value identification,principles and measures of protection,heritage education,legal mechanisms and tourism protection etc."Cultural space"is a key type of the project"intangible cultural heritage protection"of UNESCO. The research in China is relatively backward,which led to the government and the community have not placed enough emphasis on it,meanwhile,the protection and declaration of many cultural space are faced with many difficulties. According to the definition of the concept of cultural space given by the UNESCO,oasis bazaar belongs to typical and national characteristic cultural space. Under the guidance of cultural geography,cultural anthropology,folklore,sociology,history and other subjects,this paper attempts to,on the one hand,summarize the theory of cultural space,on the other hand,make a case study of Kashgar bazaar,and explore the existing problems,to put forward countermeasures for protection of Kashgar bazaar,with a view to provide reference to the protection and development of oasis bazaar. Therefore,the text is divided into the following three parts:(1) Literature review. This paper reviews the development process of the intangible cultural heritage at home and abroad and the study of the domestic situation of cultural space,and puts forward the ideas and methods of research of the present study.(2) Theoretical study. It summarizes previous concepts of cultural space,attempts to propose the dominant factor classification of the cultural space and evaluation system of cultural space. It considers bazaar as a typical oasis intangible cultural space.(3) Case study. Take Kashgar bazaar as an example,it aims to explore the formation and development of Kashgar bazaar,the resources of Kashgar bazaar,and provides suggestions to the existing problems.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kashgar, intangible cultural heritage, cultural space
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