The Friday Fillip: A Curious Panopticon
What might Sardinian pastoral songs, Chinese oolong tea, and Moore Town Jamaica have in common?
The answer’s something of a cheat, because it’s: the United Nations, and more specifically, UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Back in 2003 the Conference of UNESCO approved the text of a Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage which came into force in 2006. The aim is to identify and to some extent work to preserve unique aspects of a nation’s or a region’s received culture — intangible heritage, which:
. . . [more]includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to