Serbian intangible cultural heritage in the Western Balkans: Perils and prospects of inclusive research and safeguarding (SICHWEB)
•The issue – heritage “worth dying for”
• Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) – beliefs, customs, traditional knowledge and practices (UNESCO Convention 2003)
• State-controlled ICH safeguarding systems tend to undervalue and underrepresent minority ICH
• Project concentrates on ICH shared-while contested by Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins
• How to involve various stakeholders in ICH safeguarding to achieve regional reconciliation and prevent new identity-based conflicts (UNESCO, EU, Council of Europe, World Bank), while preserving the academic integrity of ethnology and anthropology?
Department of ethnology and anthropology
prof.Dr Miloš Milenković
The project is financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia within the program IDENTITETI (#1534)