“Regenerating” Tradition: A Cultural Memory Method to Reshape the Living Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ethnic Minorities

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.123How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural memory; Intangible cultural heritage; Living inheritance; National identity; Spontaneous inheritance

Abstract

The intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities is an essential cultural crystallization of China. The existing research focuses on how to protect the intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities so that it can be continuously inherited; In recent years, methods of living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage have also been researched at home and abroad, with the purpose of making intangible cultural heritage go out of the “museum” and be passed down among ordinary people. On this basis, this paper has changed the research ideas in two aspects. Firstly, the study expands from simply analyzing the advantages of living inheritance over traditional inheritance to looking for innovative methods of living inheritance. Secondly, the memory theory is introduced into inheritance practice in order to stimulate the identification of ethnic minorities members with their own culture through sharing the same cultural memory so as to make them inherit their own cultural heritage spontaneously and consciously. This research selects the intangible cultural heritage of the Tujia nationality in the southwest of Hubei province -- Silk String Gong and Drum art as a specific case. Based on in-depth interviews with the inheritors and other stakeholders of this intangible cultural heritage, as well as excavation and sorting of historical evidence, this paper extracts three phenomena of memory in the process of national culture inheritance: “mourning the dead” “collective amnesia” “horizontal inheritance”, and at last put forward some schemes of embedding intangible culture heritage into the memory of the new generation of ethnic minorities. This article also responds to and advocates “a subaltern perspective of memory research” at the theoretical level.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Airong Liu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - “Regenerating” Tradition: A Cultural Memory Method to Reshape the Living Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ethnic Minorities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 647
EP  - 656
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.123
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.123
ID  - Liu2022
ER  -