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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.38815
- isbn: 9782848676746
- eisbn: 9782848678788
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Alison McCleery, « Living Culture in Scotland: cherished by women, commandeered by men? », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.38815
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Where Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is concerned, inevitable tension exists between a perceived cultural requirement to ‘preserve’the authenticity of traditional practices and societal pressure or even legal necessity to adapt. If ICH is truly to constitute living culture, it must evolve if it is not to persist only as an anachronistic and outdated practice. Gender awareness represents one form of contemporary social norm unlikely to be top of the agenda of self-selected populations of ICH enthusiasts who tend to be both older, and old-school. Yet former bastions of testosterone – and alcohol-fuelled masculinity, such as Shetland’s Up Helly Aa fire festivals and Scotland’s ubiquitous Burns Suppers of haggis and whisky renown have started to change, even if some contend that they have capitulated to sanitisation in the name of political correctness. This chapter examines such tensions between cultural rights and social norms with particular reference to gender and ICH in contemporary Scotland.