Lesson 1: Cultural Heritage: Main Concepts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Cultural Heritage: Main Concepts and Definitions

Defining Cultural Heritage

Culture:

  • The set of beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.(Merriam-Webster Dict.)

  • The set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, that encompasses, not onlyart and literature, but lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs(UNESCO, 2001).

Heritage:

  • Something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor. (Merriam-Webster Dict.)

  • “Heritage” is a property, something that is inherited, passed down from previous generations.

Cultural Heritage:

can be defined as the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible values and traditions of a group or society inherited from the past

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