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Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the population of any given society, but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and decisions of adults. As a result, children's distinct experiences are frequently subsumed within the broader histories and heritage of their families and communities. And while adults inevitab.

Inspired by the announcement of a European Year of Cultural Heritage, the European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH) was established in 2017 by students at the University of Passau. Today, ESACH has become the first still-growing interdis-ciplinary and cross-generational network in the field. ESACH cur-rently brings together young researchers in the field of culture and heritage from all kinds of academic disciplines and is made up of members from various European universities and research centres, such as the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law at the University of Opole (Poland) thanks to Dr. Alicja Jagielska-Burduk. ESACH's main goal is to highlight the perspective of the younger generations with regard to cultural issues of European and national importance. Where various cultural institutions already show interest in collaborating with younger generations, we aim to establish a mutual exchange and active involvement as future decision makers. Within the network, the main questions are: How do we engage with the past elements of our culture(s)? How and why do we protect culture as a genuine element of a contemporary cultural system? What do younger generations state as heritage and what ways do they see to safeguard and experience it? ESACH stands up for a participatory way of involvement and is eager to take part in the cultural discourse at European and national levels. Until now ESACH members have been given the opportunity to contribute their ideas in several European events organized by the respective stakeholders. In June 2018, the ESACH Message as part of the "Student Summit" was presented during the high-level policy debate on the occasion of the Berlin European Cultural Heritage Summit. Present, amongst others, were Monika Grütters, Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Germany) and Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (Hungary). In November 2018, ESACH has been actively involved in the annual ...

Verlagsinfo: This book is an outcome of the National Seminar organized by IGRMS in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam. The volume comprises of 29 articles presented in the conference and dealt with the issues related with the various crucial aspects of the theme. The volume generates a vide understanding about the rich cultural heritage of Assam. In fact, the domain of cultural heritage in the context of Assam is very vast; however, this book tries to focus on some of the areaswhich deserve attention from the contemporary perspective. The book will be of immense interest to scholars and students of Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural studies and may lead to new researches to understand the people and the places of India's North east. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Prof. Sarit K. Chaudhuri is the Director of National Museum of Mankind (IGRMS), Bhopal, under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. During 2003-05, as a postdoctoral fellow of SOAS, UK, he worked in a five years collaborative project of SOAS, British Museum, CCRD, and Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. He also worked with An SI, Shillong, as well as with Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh in the Department of Anthropology and AITS. He has published 9 books and 52 research papers. Currently he is the editor of Humankind an annual IGRMS journal and also member of the 'Think Tank' formed by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Mini Bhattacharyya Thakur has been a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, Gauhati University since 1988. Presently she is a professor and head of department. She has a brilliant academic record and received her Masters' Degree from Delhi University and completed her Doctoral work on "Street food in urban Guwahati: An Anthropological Appraisal" under the supervision of Dr. A.C. Bhagabati of Gauhati University. Her research interests include food studies, medical anthropology and tribal development.

AbstractMusical instruments are central components of both the tangible and intangible heritage. However, discourse about music as intangible cultural heritage frequently overlooks the importance of instruments in conserving traditions inherited from the past and making live performance possible in the present, while curating instruments as tangible heritage often neglects their function for making music. This article explores two interrelated research questions about musical instruments as heritage. First, should instrument-crafting skills inherited from the past be sustained today, and, where industrial or mechanized manufacturing processes and the development of instruments is encouraged, what are the implications for sustaining music traditions? Second, given that instruments as crafted objects deteriorate over time, should instruments inherited from the past be displayed as objects, be restored to playing condition, or be updated and developed for contemporary use? To explore these questions, I take three case studies that juxtapose musical instruments from opposite sides of the world and from societies with very different philosophical and ideological approaches. The three case studies are Britain's piano heritage, traditional Korean instruments (kugakki) in the Republic of Korea/South Korea, and "national" instruments (minjok akki) in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea/North Korea. Based on fieldwork, ethnography, and collecting and curating work, my choice of case studies allows me to look at both the country I call home (Britain) and the region where I have researched matters musical for 40 years (the Korean peninsula). But the case studies also demonstrate that there is no single answer to questions about the role of musical instruments when (and if) instruments are recognized as both tangible and intangible heritage.

Cover -- Editorial -- Discussing natural resource extraction in cultural landscapes as a cultural value -- Dignity of the heritage and the heritage communities -- Capacity building for the documentation and conservation of Latin American cultural heritage: making technology accessible and sustainable -- New approaches for cultural heritage: scientific symposium advisory committee â€" heritage as urban regeneration tool -- Cultural landscapes: exploring local people's understanding of cultural practices as "heritageâ€.