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The 56 pages that link to Intangible cultural heritage, each with the reason it gives.

• Oral traditionRelated: Oral traditions are among the practices that heritage programs seek to safeguard.

• Cultural heritageBroader topic: Captures heritage carried through practice and transmission rather than physical objects.

• World Heritage SiteCompared with: Unlike World Heritage Sites, it is safeguarded through a separate UNESCO convention and lists.

• FolkloreRelated: Heritage frameworks overlap with folklore but emphasize safeguarding and cultural recognition.

• Language endangermentRelated: Languages carry oral traditions and culturally specific ways of expressing knowledge.

• UNESCORelated: UNESCO’s convention safeguards living traditions as well as monuments.

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ListsNarrower topic: The lists recognize examples of this broader kind of living heritage.

• Material cultureCompared with: It foregrounds inherited practices and knowledge rather than physical objects.

• TranshumanceRelated: Herding skills, route knowledge, and seasonal customs can be transmitted across generations.

• Cultural heritage managementRelated: Management must account for living traditions as well as physical places and objects.

• Cultural tourismBroader topic: Tourism can provide visibility and income for living traditions, but also pressure them to change.

• SambaNarrower topic: Samba traditions depend on transmission through performance, teaching, and community participation.

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural HeritageNarrower topic: UNESCO’s framework applies to this broader category of living heritage.

• EthnomusicologyRelated: Documentation and safeguarding of musical traditions raise questions about ownership and continuity.

• Cultural propertyCompared with: It distinguishes cultural practices from the physical objects and sites at issue here.

• MariachiNarrower topic: Mariachi is transmitted through performance and teaching rather than preserved only as objects or scores.

• TraditionRelated: UNESCO’s framework treats traditions as living practices maintained by communities.

• Folklore studiesCompared with: Heritage frameworks overlap with folklore research but place added emphasis on safeguarding and policy.

• MarrakeshNarrower topic: Jemaa el-Fnaa's performance traditions are recognized as living heritage, not merely architecture.

• Cantonese operaNarrower topic: Cantonese opera depends on embodied skills and repertories sustained through teaching and performance.

• Cultural heritage tourismBroader topic: Festivals, crafts, and oral traditions attract visitors without being monuments or artifacts.

• Folk artRelated: Folk art traditions can depend on preserving shared knowledge as well as finished objects.

• CapoeiraNarrower topic: Capoeira is safeguarded as heritage through its practice, music, and community transmission.

• Outstanding universal valueCompared with: The convention concerns properties and places, while this heritage framework safeguards living practices.

• Cultural heritage preservationBroader topic: Its preservation depends on continued practice and transmission, not simply storing an object.

• World Heritage CommitteeCompared with: Its international safeguarding system is separate from the Committee’s World Heritage List mandate.

• Durga PujaNarrower topic: UNESCO inscribed Kolkata’s Durga Puja on its Representative List in 2021.

• Korean shamanismNarrower topic: Heritage frameworks recast some shamanic rites as cultural assets as well as religious practices.

• Culinary tourismNarrower topic: Cooking skills, rituals, and food customs can be forms of heritage experienced through travel.

• Folk danceRelated: Dance traditions are transmitted through people and practice, not merely through artifacts.

• African oral literatureNarrower topic: Oral literature is often safeguarded as living heritage whose continuation depends on practitioners.

• Chinese cultural heritageBroader topic: Captures living traditions such as performance, craft, and ritual within Chinese heritage.

• Dragon Boat FestivalNarrower topic: Festival rituals and skills are preserved as living practices rather than only as historic objects.

• Snake charmingRelated: The decline of snake display raises questions about preserving performance traditions without captive snakes.

• KaguraRelated: Kagura’s transmission depends on performers and communities sustaining living ritual knowledge.

• Arabic coffeeNarrower topic: Arabic coffee customs are recognized as living cultural practices passed between generations.

• DabkeNarrower topic: Dabke is transmitted through participation, teaching, and performance rather than fixed objects.

• Amadou Hampâté BâRelated: Bâ’s preservation work anticipates current efforts to safeguard living cultural traditions.

• HandicraftRelated: Craft techniques can be safeguarded as living knowledge, not only as finished objects.

• HanfuNarrower topic: Hanfu debates often concern whether clothing practice belongs to heritage preservation or cultural revival.

• WayangNarrower topic: Wayang is sustained through performance, teaching, and community transmission.

• Farida ParveenNarrower topic: Lalon song survives as a performed tradition rather than merely a written archive.

• Japanese theatreNarrower topic: Noh and Kabuki have received UNESCO recognition as living performance heritage.

• Culture of South AmericaNarrower topic: This framework includes South American oral traditions, festivals, crafts, and performing arts.

• Double Third FestivalNarrower topic: Festival songs, foods, and rites are preserved as living cultural practices.

• Epic of King GesarRelated: The epic’s continuity depends on performers, audiences, and community transmission.

• Madhubani artRelated: Madhubani is transmitted through practice and teaching as well as through finished paintings.

• Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the AmericasNarrower topic: Narratives are among living heritage practices, not merely texts preserved from the past.

• Regong artsRelated: Regong arts rely on learned skills transmitted across generations and workshops.

• Roi MataRelated: Oral accounts and custodial knowledge remain central to the domain’s meaning.