Ethnological Research, No. 26, 2021.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.32458/ei.26.9
Haenyeo Culture from Jeju Island as an Example of Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Republic of Korea Nationally and Internationally
Matija Dronjić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-4867
; Ethnographic Museum
Abstract
The author presents the preliminary results of a survey conducted during a five-month study stay at the National Folk Museum of Korea in 2017 as a part of the International
Professional Exchange Programme of the Cultural Partnership Initiative (CPI) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and further research
conducted independently in 2019, which aimed to study the Korean system for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and its effects on a very specific phenomenon
of intangible cultural heritage – the so-called haenyeo culture from Jeju Island, i.e. the culture of women divers from Jeju Island – included in UNESCO's Representative
List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016 and the Korean National Intangible Cultural Heritage List a year later.
Keywords
Intangible Cultural Heritage, haenyeo, fisheries, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
Hrčak ID:
267690
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Publication date:
20.12.2021.
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