Taiwanese Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Revitalization: Community Practices and Local Development

Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh, Su-chen Lin, Shu-chuan Lai, Ying-hao Huang, Chen Yi-fong, Yi-tze Lee and Fikret Berkes
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Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh: Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Su-chen Lin: Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Shu-chuan Lai: Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Ying-hao Huang: Undergraduate Program of Indigenous Social Work, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Chen Yi-fong: Department of Indigenous Affairs and Development, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Yi-tze Lee: Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, 1, Sec, 2, Da-Hsueh Rd., Shou-Feng, Hualien 974, Taiwan
Fikret Berkes: Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: The continuing interest and progress in indigenous communities and local economies based on traditional, cultural, and ecological knowledge contributes to indigenous resilience. Here we report on an ongoing collaborative project investigating the process of renewal of cultural heritage through strengthening the roots of indigenous cultural traditions of knowledge and practice, and the changing concepts of tradition. The project investigates the various mechanisms for conserving indigenous culture: How the heritage of indigenous culture is reconstructed; how this heritage is related to the social frame and practice of everyday life; how power intervention affects the contestation of heritage; and in the context of heritage contestation, how cultural heritage turns into economic capital in the tourism economy of the community. The project explores the process of cultural heritagization of indigenous traditional knowledge through six individual projects in the areas of food and edible heritage, ethnic revival, weaving, solidarity economy, cultural ecotourism, and indigenous agro-products. In addition, the project examines the establishment of a constructive dialogue between the “traditional future”, cultural heritage literature and local practice in the interest of the consolidation of alternative development.

Keywords: Taiwanese indigenous studies; cultural heritage; heritagization; ecotourism; indigenous food culture; weaving; solidarity economy; alternative development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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