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te. In some cases, intangible cultural heritage may be viewed as a national treasure meriting government support, tax breaks, or subsidies. Looming dangers This can be positive, but it can also turn a practice controlled by the munity into an institution controlled by bureaucrats. In other cases, a ritual celebration may be seen as an underexploited asset prompting mercial investment. This may 8 bring funding support, but it may also destroy the very meaning of the tradition, turning it into an activity staged for tourists. The very recognition of the value of intangible cultural resources can initiate or exacerbate conflictspeople within the society fighting for control over the tradition, people from the outside affecting the power balance within. Importantly, there is the question of what is being preserved is it the tradition itself as product (for example, the song), is it the documentary record of the tradition (the recording), or the people (singers) and process (the singing)? Finally, there is the issue of who decides. Nations belonging to UNESCO must nominate those cultural traditions for consideration as treasures. Many nominations may be put forth with the best intentions, but some might reflect narrow interests of a group in power. Some minority traditions may be overlooked or even censored from consideration. Given that many folk traditions arise as forms of resistance to national domination, the idea of national nomination may be flawed. I must say that I was impressed with UNESCO39。 skills and orally conveyed knowledge of farming. It can even include festivals and spaces where people gather, such as the wondrous Drama elFan square in Marrakech. You might find its traces in a museumplants used by a traditional healer, for examplebut it is mostly the living, oral tradition of a people. It is not culture under glass! Japan’s living national treasures Scholars have long recognized the intangibility of culture. In the 18th and 19th 6 centuries philologists, folklorists and others tried to document the world39。鑒于許多民俗形式 會 產(chǎn)生 對抗 的國家統(tǒng)治的想法,國家的提名可能有缺陷。在某些情況下,非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)可以被看作一個國家 的精神 財富,值得政府 去大力 支持 對非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)的保護(hù),在 稅收 方面給予 優(yōu)惠 并給予相應(yīng)的 補貼。 非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)具體包括那些內(nèi)容,這 沒有一個 明確的答