Culture can never be reduced to its artifacts while it is being lived. Quoting these words by Raymond Williams, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett wrote that the same is true with cultural heritage, which is not mere artifacts but something that is being lived (Theorizing Heritage, Ethnomusicology 39, 1995). This statement must have sounded strange in the mid-1990s because it was commonly believed then that cultural heritage constituted of the artifacts of architecture and archaeology.
展开▼
