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Local beliefs feudal superstition intangible cultural heritage Hongtong Zouqin Xisu “receiving Aunties” Ehuang and Nüying On June 14, 2008, the Hongtong Zouqin Xisu in Hongtong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, was announced as one of the 510 natio…

Kutiyattam, Heritage, and the Dynamics of Culture

Asian Ethnology Published: 2020-06-30 Categories: English

UNESCO intangible cultural heritage Kutiyattam theater heritage policy cultural continuity Kerala In recent years, global heritage discourse has increasingly focused upon the intangible, part of a movement led by the global South to decenter the hegemo…

Mak Yong, a UNESCO “Masterpiece”

Asian Ethnology Published: 2020-06-30 Categories: English

intangible cultural heritage UNESCO Masterpiece Islam politics nationalism communities of practice safeguarding Mak yong, a form of Malay theater, was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005 and incorp…

Notes from the Lockdown

Nicklas Hållén Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English

Here is an e-version of Notes from the Lockdown a collection of text written about and/or during the lockdown in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia-Oromia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, …

The Golden Mile Complex

Ying-kit Chan Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

The Golden Mile Complex is one of Singapore’s first shopping malls, built as part of the postcolonial government’s plan to expand and redevelop the urban center. Barely a decade into its existence, Thai eateries, shops, and remittance centers sprang up…

Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia

Alexander Trupp Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals adopted in 2015, are aimed at reconciling economic, social, and ecological progress at a global level – ensuring a sustainable future for developed and developing countries alike. Tourism in S…

Local Tourism Businesses in Indonesia

Heidi Dahles Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which small tourism-based enterprises can offer a crisis-resilient pathway to sustainable development. Based on a mixed-embeddedness framework, this paper explores the multiple strategies that small enterpris…

Volunteer Tourists and the SDGs in Bali

Claudia Dolezal Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

Volunteer tourism is an ever-growing phenomenon and a multi-million-pounds industry, particularly in developing countries. Despite the manifold criticism for its neo-colonial nature – self-centered volunteers who romanticize the Global South as ‘poor b…

Language and Community-Based Tourism

Singhanat Nomnian Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

Language and tourism are essentially interconnected by the cross-border movement of tourists and the resulting encounters of people who often speak different languages. These relationships, however, have not been explored very much in the context of co…

Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia and Tourists’ Willingness to Pay

Sabine Müller Published: 2020-06-29 Categories: English · German · Multilingual

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) sites are often seen as a tool for poverty alleviation and eradication, especially in Least Developed Countries like Cambodia. CBT as a development tool has been critically examined in recent years in a development coopera…