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    Cultural heritage includes tangible artifacts like buildings and artifacts as well as intangible elements like oral traditions, rituals, and customs that are passed down between generations. Tangible heritage refers to physical objects representative of a culture while intangible heritage includes things like songs, beliefs, and stories. Both forms of cultural heritage are threatened by issues of authenticity if items are fabricated as well as by proper preservation to ensure cultural practices and artifacts can endure.

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    Lesson 4: Cultural Forms and Threats

    Cultural Heritage
    Legacy is what remains after one’s time. Handed down from one generation to another, legacy magnifies
    one’s life and living. It is said that legacy is what cultural heritage is.

    According to John Feather, cultural heritage is a human creation intended to inform.

     architectures such as buildings, houses, and structures


     artifacts like books, documents, objects, images, clothing, accessories, and jars
     things that made people who they are like oral stories, values, laws, norms, rituals, and traditions

    Cultural heritage helps historians and archaeologists understand and decipher the way of living people of
    yesterday had. Through these objects, we are presented with facts and figures which help us draw the
    landscape of the world once was.

    Tangible and Intangible Heritage


    Cultural heritage is a representation of the ways of living established by society or group and passed on from
    generation to generation. Cultural heritage can be categorized as either tangible or intangible.

    Tangible Heritage
    Tangible means perceptible, touchable, concrete, or physical. A tangible heritage is a physical artifact or
    objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science, or technology of a specific culture.

    Objects that can be stored are included in this category:

     traditional clothing,
     utensils (such as bead work, water vessels),
     vehicles (such as the ox wagon),
     documents (codes, laws, land titles, literature), and
     public works and architecture built and constructed by a cultural group (buildings, historical places,
    monuments, temples, graves, roads, and bridges fall into this category as well).

    Intangible Heritage
    Intangible is the opposite of tangible. Unlike tangible heritage, an intangible heritage is not a physical or
    concrete item. Intangible heritage is that which exists intellectually in the culture.

    Intangible heritage includes:

     songs,
     myths,
     beliefs,
     superstitions,
     oral poetry,
     stories, and
     various forms of traditional knowledge such as ethnobotanical knowledge.

    Threats to Tangible and Intangible Heritage


    There was a time in contemporary history when museums were in constant search and hurry to look for
    historical materials to display. Due to the ascent of demand for cultural materials, opportunists saw this as an
    avenue for them to earn money. They invented materials and claim that these were excavated or unearthed
    and once owned by a cultural group.

     Documents whose authenticity are yet to be determined include Hitler diaries, crystal skulls of
    Mesoamerica (tangible), and the status/story of Saint Nicholas' companion Black Peter (intangible).
     Authenticity or truthfulness of origin, attributes, and intentions of cultural heritage are one of the issues
    concerning sources of our culture.
     Aside from authenticity issues, preservation or the act of making a cultural heritage lasting and existing is
    also a primary concern.

    Threats to Tangible and Intangible Heritage


    There was a time in contemporary history when museums were in constant search and hurry to look for
    historical materials to display. Due to the ascent of demand for cultural materials, opportunists saw this as an
    avenue for them to earn money. They invented materials and claim that these were excavated or unearthed
    and once owned by a cultural group.

     Documents whose authenticity are yet to be determined include Hitler diaries, crystal skulls of
    Mesoamerica (tangible), and the status/story of Saint Nicholas' companion Black Peter (intangible).
     Authenticity or truthfulness of origin, attributes, and intentions of cultural heritage are one of the issues
    concerning sources of our culture.
     Aside from authenticity issues, preservation or the act of making a cultural heritage lasting and existing is
    also a primary concern.

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