Abstract:“Community- centered” is a basic concept that UNESCO has always adhered to in the process of safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage. The safeguarding practice has experienced a shift from “intangible cultural heritage into community” to “intangible cultural heritage in the community”. The latter aims to maintain public awareness and participation, so that the intangible cultural heritage that originally belonged to the public can return to the people and the community. Therefore, the public can gain respect and recognition in the process. However, owing to the distinction in both understanding and orientation of the community, the existent proposed mode of “intangible cultural heritage in the community” in China still has obvious traces of “intangible cultural heritage into community”. The endogenous community-oriented mechanism has not been generally formed, and the phenomenon of relying too much on the government and the government arranging still exists. In the future, we should negotiate between the public, inheritors and government staffs and integrate their different understandings of the concept of “community”. In other words, we should not only focus on the main inheritors, but also pay holistic attention to the members of the community, to create a benign atmosphere for the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. In addition, it is also necessary to balance the relationship between government intervention and civil participation, promote the cooperation between the government and the public in terms of “cultural dialogue”, enhance public enthusiasm to participate, and promote the transformation of the community from being the participant to the leader.
程鹏. 中国非遗社区保护的实践转向及关键问题[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2024, 41(2): 56-65.
CHENG Peng. Practice Turning and Key Issues of Community Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China. , 2024, 41(2): 56-65.