Should Hunting as a Cultural Heritage Be Protected?
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Should Hunting as a Cultural Heritage Be Protected? Wojciech Dajczak1,2 · Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz3,4 · Aleksandra Matulewska5,6 · Wojciech Szafrański1,7
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Abstract The paper focuses on hunting as cultural heritage from the semiotic and legal perspectives. The aim of the paper is to determine whether the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2003 allows recognizing the transmission and exercise of hunting skills within the Polish Hunting Association as a manifestation of intangible cultural heritage. The main research method applied in this research is the test of legal rationality encompassing five elements: (1) the generic coherence of hunting knowledge and skills in Poland; (2) the lack of conflict with the principles arising from universal human rights instruments; (3) the significance of hunting knowledge and skills for nature protection and conservation; (4) the significance of hunting knowledge and skills for economic balance and internal security; and (5) the hunting knowledge and skills versus the idea of naturerelated cultural identity. The newspaper and political discourse is highly emotional loaded and frequently instead of merits is based on propaganda and half-truths. Nowadays hunting in general is perceived as the so-called blood sport not an element of ecology in the nature disturbed by humans. Therefore, the paper is intended to present the UNESCO Convention and facts about Polish hunting model as an element of sustainable nature and environment conservation and protection as well as a tool of biodiversity preservation. Keywords Hunting · Tangible cultural heritage · Intangible cultural heritage · Knowledge about nature and the universe · Hunting culture · Hunting heritage · Cultural heritage law
* Aleksandra Matulewska [email protected] * Wojciech Szafrański [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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1 Introduction All manifestations of intangible cultural heritage are one of the basic sources of cultural identity [2]. That is why the relationship and mutual interaction of material and intangible heritage is so important. That relationship should be understood as a dynamic rather than static one. The authors contrast the characteristic of the material heritage of museocentrism or objectocentrism, focusing on the past, with the present and even future vitality of culture and the importance of its depositors, which is the key to understanding the intangible cultural heritage [28: 27–28]; [1]. The process of humanizing the law of cultural heritage, participating in it here and now in a far more complete way is possible in the area of intangible cultural heritage. In view of the universality of ratification of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of 2003 [103], there is no doubt that the intangible cultural heritage is not only an integral part of cultural heritage, but more importantly the eleme
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