Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China by Khun Eng Kuah Zhaohui Liu

Author:Khun Eng Kuah, Zhaohui Liu [Khun Eng Kuah, Zhaohui Liu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317242635
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

In terms of quality, Connerton holds that habit is a kind of knowledge and a memory by means of hands and body and that he cultivation of habit happens to be the understandings by our body (Connerton 2000: 117). The cultivation of practice memory exists in the repeated body actions and cultural practice, naturally until it becomes unconscious; cultural memory is acquired or happens even involuntarily.

Third, cultural memory. The so-called cultural memory is defined by Jan Ass-mann as the total concept concerning all the knowledge of a society in a particular interaction framework that governs human behavior and experiences and is repeatedly understood and skillfully mastered generation after generation (p.4). This essay emphasizes the impact of practice memory on human behavior activity, experience effects, and cyclic occurrence as well as the inherent logic of cultural inheritance generation after generation. The practice as mentioned here includes the cultural memory, conscious and unconscious, or acquired between change and non-change. It should be noted that culture does not solely govern human behavior and experiences. In the process of cultural practice some new cultural elements may occur as well, as a result of some “demand”, which in turn work on original cultural body. Based on such a role (“governing”) and counter-role, practice memory creates new cultural elements in original cultural body. The dual relations are the precondition of self-adaptation and evolution for the inheritance of culture, as well as the special feature of practice memory based on the past and present and oriented to the future.

In the following part we will explore the issue through the ritual of the Buyi people’s “Song Ning”.1

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