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Intellectual Cultural Heritage
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Description
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“Social practices, rituals
and festive events” means
the expression of
customary or traditional
behaviour that has been
established and transmitted
from generation to
generation.
“Knowledge and practices
concerning nature and the
universe” means the
knowledge, ability, and skill
of the groups, communities
and regions for existing in
harmony with nature and
the universe.
3) “Music and performance in rituals” means the traditional play
activity, such as festival drama, folk dance, and ritualistic dance drama, which
features in a ceremony or rite and forms a part of the belief system, a way of life,
malady treatment and healing, heartening rite, vocational rites, for example.
4) “Folk song” means the song of folk origin in its form or style, with
a simple tune and lyric that aim to entertain during the various occasions or
festivities or during a collaborative labour or work.
1) “Beliefs” means the acceptance of the truth of something or of a
proposition, either through wisdom and reason or through faith and lack of
reason, by an individual, a group, or an ethnic group, for example, the belief
in ghosts and spirits and the supernatural, fate, omens, predestination,
talisman, taboo and so on.
2) “Custom” means a way of behaving or a belief which has been
established for a long time in the community, such as the act of
wai
(polite
greeting or respect-paying gesture by joining the palms of the hands
together), the
Phuk Siao rite
(a kind of blood-brother vow ceremony of
Thailand’s northeasterners), the
Somma
or the
Kho Khama
ceremony
(forgiveness-asking ceremony), the social manners and etiquettes etc.
3) “Tradition and ceremony or rite” means a belief, principle or way
of acting which people in a particular society or group have continued to
follow for a long time that they have become a pattern of behaviours,
activities or procedures, such as the professional traditions, health care
traditions, the various rites of passage, religious rites and traditions,
the annual rites or the twelve-month’s rites, the festivities and so on.
1) “Settlement” is the body of knowledge for choosing the location or
site for the community, home building and so on.
2) “Gastronomy and culinary” is the art and knowledge involved in
producing, preparing, cooking, preserving and eating good food, which has
been passed on from generation to generation, for example, the food cycle,
food processing, food preservation, food in the rites and ceremony, kitchen
utensils and so on.
3) “Health care” is the knowledge in managing traditional healthcare
in the community, which is embraced by the community, become a part of
the way of life of its people, and is associated with its belief, rite, culture,
tradition, and resources, which are different in each community, for example,
the healthcare practice and treatment of illness, belief and system of
relationship in healthcare and so on.
4) “Natural resources management” is the knowledge of the local
people and the community, which has been passed on from generation to
generation, in managing, taking care of, preserving, and making use of
the resources. For example, soil, mineral, forest and water management and
so on.