The Moral Imperative to Preserve

Cloonan, Michèle V.

doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0003

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“…Heritage is widely known to be a collective tangible or intangible antiquities defining specific cultures and is passed from one generation to another (Cloonan, 2007;Hood, 2014;McKercher et al, 2005;Tibere & Aloysius, 2013). Hood (2014) adds that heritage in general acts as remembrance, reliving and teacher for current and future generations.…”

Section: Literature Review Malaysia Food Heritage and The Traditional...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pilot Study on the Practice of Preserving Authenticity in Traditional Malay Kuih among Producers in Klang Valley

Kamaruzaman¹,

Karim²,

Ishak³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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Within the food heritage topic, the traditional food has always been given the limelight for cultural celebration as well as a nation's identity representation. It has been researched more these days as the value in promoting it to the world promises national economic growth by the tourism activities. However, given the fact that the world is moving forward with globalization, standardization is becoming more apparent across the globe and the traditional food has been getting more threats than just age. In Malaysia specifically, the question of authenticity in the Malay traditional food in general is a never-ending debacle. The argument of what is authentic is still going on with plethora of justifications that are adapting to, and against the standardization. To investigate the matter, a qualitative research design is proposed, and pilot study was initiated. The traditional Malay kuih was chosen to be the object of the research as its product breadth is a range of dynamic delicacies to the sensory as well as traditions. The producers of traditional Malay kuih are the vital informants to expose the insightful meaning of authenticity in the delicacies, and the practices that they normalized to make them accordingly. Considering that these producers are well established

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Section: Literature Review Malaysia Food Heritage and The Traditional...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pilot Study on the Practice of Preserving Authenticity in Traditional Malay Kuih among Producers in Klang Valley

Kamaruzaman¹,

Karim²,

Ishak³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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“…This is not to imply that all preservationists are unaware of how power has affected and biased heritage preservation (or lack thereof) of the cultures of marginalized groups in the past. The more recent trend is to overcome prior exclusion by encouraging participation by local community members and members of indigenous groups in the preservation of their own histories (Becvar and Srinivasan, 2009;Cloonan, 2007aCloonan, , 2007bLloyd, 2007;Ogden, 2007;Srinivasan, 2006Srinivasan, , 2007. The UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is but one example of a response on the global level to the problem of overcoming unequal cultural representation.…”

Section: Power and Hierarchy In Preservation: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the past, colonialism fueled this power imbalance as the imperial powers of the West imposed their cultures on ‘the other’ (Cloonan, 2007a; Laszlo, 2006; Munjeri, 1998). This dichotomy continues, knowingly or unknowingly, as those who lead preservation efforts bring with them ‘Western sensibilities’ (Cloonan, 2007b: 142) that are out of step with, if not foreign to, those constituents whom they would like to assist.…”

Section: Power and Hierarchy In Preservation: Contextmentioning

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“…While this broadening of our perspectives on culture and heritage is an important development in shaping what gets preserved, it is also important to note that the UNESCO documents have been criticized for being too general, for providing inadequate definitions of cultural heritage, and for not being disseminated widely enough – that is, outside the field of preservation professionals (Cloonan, 2007a). We would argue that the UNESCO documents are subject to such criticism precisely because of those problems we present here: namely, the lack of attention paid to the greater social and political dimensions of preservation by researchers, the constructed nature of cultural heritage, the lack of consideration given to the problem of preservationists, and their own role as cultural elites as well as their link to indigenous elites.…”

Section: Power and Hierarchy In Preservation: Contextmentioning

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Hierarchy, complicity and culture in the library and information science preservation agenda: Observations from Romania

Klimaszewski

Bader

Nyce

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This paper argues that researchers involved in cultural heritage preservation need to adopt a more inclusive ethnographic research methodology that pays special attention to how power, class, and status shape the communities we study. Based on observations from field research in Ghimeş-Fǎget, Romania, we discuss why the Hungarian ethnic identity was chosen as the village's most visible representation although residents had many other identities from which to choose. We show how local efforts to preserve culture, history and self 'in one direction' were shaped by the current socio-economic reality in the village. Our findings suggest that identity selection is influenced by shifting power relations between ethnic groups over time as much as it is by the dominant ethnic group in a community. In an effort to show how existing research falls short, we discuss why one recently proposed 'culturally responsive research methodology' could not support any kind of legitimate preservation agenda in Ghimeş or any other community.

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“…3 The process by which personal archives and mementoes survived attests to the power of archives. Michelle Cloonan (2007) captures the stresses inherent in the documenting of war:…”

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Archives, War, and Memory: Building a Framework

Cox

2012

Library & Archival Security

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Archives, often targeted for destruction in war, are also given meaning in these conflicts. Institutions with an archival function (archives, museums, and libraries) are destroyed, but new repositories are often created in their place. War even provides an impetus for the creation of new documentary forms. This essay explores archives within the framework of memory studies, specifically that part focusing on war. Drawing on the growing rich scholarly literature on war memory, this essay addresses the implications for understanding archives, in the context of documenting, remembering, and forgetting, and in how memorials, from cemeteries to uses of new technologies, influence our understanding of archives and the archival function. In efforts to destroy archives as symbols of society and culture, we can begin to gain a new and different sense of the value of archives. This essay begins to lay out a framework for valuing archives that extends outside of the traditional notions of archives.

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The Moral Imperative to Preserve

Cited by 10 publications

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A Pilot Study on the Practice of Preserving Authenticity in Traditional Malay Kuih among Producers in Klang Valley

A Pilot Study on the Practice of Preserving Authenticity in Traditional Malay Kuih among Producers in Klang Valley

Hierarchy, complicity and culture in the library and information science preservation agenda: Observations from Romania

Archives, War, and Memory: Building a Framework

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