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Intellectual Cultural Heritage
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Social practices, rituals and festive events
domain:
1. Having specific characteristics that reflect
the identity or self-image concerning the
history or origins, the selection process,
including the adaptation and development
within the community to the point of being
well-accepted and perpetuated by the
community;
2. Having explicit format or pattern of practice,
timing, procedure, and sequence;
3. Having been transmitted through several
gene r a t i ons and pe rpetua ted to the
present or having evidence of having been
practiced in the community;
4. Being commonly known, adopted and
practiced at the level of ethnic group, as well as
at the level of local, regional and national
communities;
5. Reflecting the moral/ethical wisdom and
intellectual wisdom, which possess value for
the spirit, the way of life, and the society;
6. Being the connecting core and forming the
network of relations among the different
regions;
7. Being at risk of disappearance or misuse;
8. Hav i ng other character i s t i cs that the
Committees of Experts consider relevant.
Knowledge and practices concerning nature and
the universe domain:
1. Having been transmitted and perpetuated
to the present in the people’s way of life;
2. Reflecting national identity or self-image
of the community or region;
3. Being at risk of disappearance or facing
threatening danger;
4. Hav i ng other character i s t i cs that the
Committees of Experts consider relevant.
Remark:
At least one criterion shall be met for an
item to be designated as Thailand’s intellectual
cultural heritage, which shall be done at the
discretion of the Committees of Experts, who
are appointed by the Department of Cultural
Promotion.