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1. Cultural heritage - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage
Description: WEBCultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity ). [2]
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2. What is Cultural Heritage? | Whose Culture? - Harvard University
Link: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/whoseculture/what-world-heritage
Description: WEBUNESCO defines world heritage as “the designation for places on Earth that are of outstanding universal value,” and defines culture as a set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of a society or a social group.
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3. What is Cultural Heritage? (article) | Khan Academy
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/special-topics-art-history/arches-at-risk-cultural-heritage-education-series/arches-beginners-guide/a/what-is-cultural-heritage
Description: WEB“Heritage” is a property, something that is inherited, passed down from previous generations. In the case of “cultural heritage,” the heritage doesn’t consist of money or property, but of culture, values, and traditions. Cultural heritage implies a shared bond, our belonging to a community.
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4. Cultural heritage: 7 successes of UNESCO’s preservation work
Link: https://www.unesco.org/en/cultural-heritage-7-successes-unescos-preservation-work
Description: WEBJul 18, 2023 · Culture is a resource for the identity and cohesion of communities. In today’s interconnected world, it is also one of our most powerful resources to transform societies and renew ideas. It is UNESCO’s role to provide the tools and skills we need to make the most of its ultimate renewable energy.
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5. World Heritage | UNESCO
Link: https://www.unesco.org/en/world-heritage
Description: WEBOur cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
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6. Cultural heritage | UNESCO UIS
Link: https://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary-term/cultural-heritage
Description: WEBDefinition. Cultural heritage includes artefacts, monuments, a group of buildings and sites, museums that have a diversity of values including symbolic, historic, artistic, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological, scientific and social significance.
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7. Smarthistory – What is cultural heritage?
Link: https://smarthistory.org/what-is-cultural-heritage-2/
Description: WEBDec 6, 2023 · Cultural heritage implies a shared bond, our belonging to a community. It represents our history and our identity; our bond to the past, to our present, and the future. Tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
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8. The Ethics of Cultural Heritage - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-cultural-heritage/
Description: WEBJul 12, 2018 · The Ethics of Cultural Heritage. First published Thu Jul 12, 2018. Do members of cultural groups have special claims to own or control the products of the cultures to which they belong? Is there something morally wrong with employing artistic styles that are distinctive of a culture to which you do not belong?
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9. Smarthistory – What is cultural heritage?
Link: https://smarthistory.org/what-is-cultural-heritage/
Description: WEBDec 6, 2023 · What is cultural heritage? by Elena Franchi. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503–05, oil on panel, 30-1/4 x 21 inches ( Musée du Louvre) We often hear about the importance of cultural heritage. But what is cultural heritage? And whose heritage is it? Whose national heritage, for example, does the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci belong to?
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10. UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Link: https://whc.unesco.org/
Description: WEBThe World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. It is used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention and inscribed on the official World Heritage List, and represents the universal values for which the Convention stands.
