Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage / edited by Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Touching the intangible: an introduction / Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane -- The paradoxes of intangible heritage / Marilena Alivizatou -- Memory, museums and the making of meaning : a Caribbean perspective / Alissandra Cummins -- From intangible expression to digital cultural heritage / Kate Hennessy -- Conversation piece : intangible cultural heritage in Sweden / Ewa Bergdahl -- Africa's rich intangible heritage : managing a continent's diverse resources / George Abungu -- The silence of meanings in conventional approaches to cultural heritage in Jordan : the exclusion of contexts and the marginalisation of the intangible / Shatha Abu-Khafajah and Shaher Rababeh -- Conversation piece : intangible cultural heritage in India / Vasant Hari Bedekar -- Reflections on the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France / Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet -- Government and intangible heritage in Australia / Lyn Leader-Elliott and Daniella Trimboli -- Proud to be Dutch? intangible heritage and national identity in the Netherlands / Leontine Meijer-van Mensh and Peter van Mensh -- Intangible cultural heritage in Wales / Andrew Dixey -- Conversation piece : intangible cultural heritage in Botswana / Susan Keitumetse.