Community involvement in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage : case study of Malacca /

This study intends to assess the influence of universal culture on local culture, which is reflected in community manifestation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in a World Heritage Site (WHS). The concerned community of the study is the cultural community of Malacca who are residing within the...

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Main Author: Aisyah Binti Abu Bakar
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur: Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia, 2013
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Online Access:http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/2924
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520 |a This study intends to assess the influence of universal culture on local culture, which is reflected in community manifestation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in a World Heritage Site (WHS). The concerned community of the study is the cultural community of Malacca who are residing within the core zone and buffer zone of WHS location of Malacca. Since the physical setting of the WHS location is a rapidly urbanizing tourism city, it is unsurprising that the locals of the city are experiencing the impact of urbanization which often associates to modernization and globalization. As the community assimilates into the global mainstream of society, the distinctiveness of their local culture slowly disappears as universal culture gradually disseminates into the lives of the community. The unfavorable influence of universal culture results in common yet alarming universal community issues facing community manifestation of ICH. The community issues weaken social coherence of the community members to safeguard their endangered and declining ICH. As a result, cultural identity of the community deteriorates and cultural diversity of the WHS will potentially be at a loss. The study recognizes the community issues through the interaction between universal traits of the community with their manifestation of ICH. Universal traits are the commonly analyzed demographic and socioeconomic factors which represent the concept of diversity of the members in the cultural community. The analysis determines the statistical interactions between universal traits and community manifestation of ICH in relation to the recognized community issues from literature reviews. The survey questionnaires activity with the cultural community obtained 640 samples for further statistical analyses. Additionally, findings from semistructured interviews evaluate the community issues from relevant authorities‟ perspectives. The interviews also acknowledge the current approaches to overcome the issues and safeguard ICH. These community issues are lack nurturing and transmitting local culture, acculturation and deculturation, lack sense of place attachment, contemporary over traditional cultures, weak family institution, strong ethnic enclaves, guidance of metaphysical force, conventional over indigenous knowledge input, socioeconomic inequality and lack of interest and convenience. Three objectives of community involvement control the generated guidelines of community involvement to solve the identified community issues. The objectives are to allow community opinions in decision making, to allow community responsibility over changes occurring in the community and finally to allow the community to exercise control over available resources and institution. The significance of the study is realized in emphasizing the community as the most important component to safeguard their ICH in the rapidly urbanizing City of Living Culture, such as Malacca. 
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