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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41371

Type

conference item

Titre

Folk dancing, tourism and identity : a relationship in (de)construction?

Langues

English

Auteurs

Henriques, Claudia / Custódio, Maria João

Date

2008

Pages

11 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

spirit of place / tourism / folk art / dance / cultural identity / cultural tourism / performing arts / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Portugal

Monuments et sites

Algarve, Portugal

Résumé en anglais

This paper aims to focus on a study that looked atthe extent to which folk-dancing is considered by young residents in the Algarve, Portugal to contribute to the transmission of the spirit of the place to tourists visiting the region.The study was based on a questionnaire survey given out to a sample of students at the University of the Algarve. The results showed that little is known about folk-dancing among the students, although at the same time they tend to assign a market value to this type of dancing, which is associated with cultural tourism.It is then suggested that the valuing of folk-dancing as a tourist resource should therefore be re-assessed to allow young people, and even perhaps other age groups, to integrate this form of popular cultural expression as their own rather than being for others (visitors). This in turn leads us to the need to rethink current educational dynamics.

Document joint

77-6VnU-142.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)