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THE IMMATERIAL CULTURE OF THE OCEAN: DATA DIGGING, MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION

 

Activity type: Research and Communication

 

Leader: Carla Dâmaso (OMA)

 

Sub-leader: Carla Alferes Pinto (FCSH)

 

Partner organizations:

OMA (Portugal), FCSH (Portugal), Uninorte (Colombia), APCM (Portugal), UFS-LAAA (Brazil), IPC (Cape Verde) and MARAPA (Sao Tome and Principe).

 

Objectives:

The main purpose of this WP is to identify, gather, analyse, promote and safeguard examples of the common intangible heritage of the Atlantic people, especially the one that is connected to maritime and coastal populations and concerns the ocean. Written and oral materials will be collected, a corpus will be build, analyse and disseminate to safeguard and reinforce the cultural roots that link many countries around the ocean. Several tasks will be conducted for achieve these objectives. In detail, we will identify and collect legends, stories, songs, place-name stories, food recipes, sea wisdom and beliefs, traditional crafts, skills and know-how, experiences and memories from written sources (archives) and oral sources (oral narration). Make written and video recordings of all the data to preserve the information. Develop a corpus and analyse the common intangible heritage of the people of the Atlantic. Promote and safeguard this knowledge by sharing it with the populations involved in the project and by increasing citizens’ awareness to the relevancy of these materials to the strengthening of the individual and collective identities of communities and nations. A database of collected information will be constructed. Some of the information collected in this WP will be made available through the online website MemoriaMedia (http://www.memoriamedia.net/index.php/en), a web museum to show and share videos, documentaries and studies related with cultural manifestations of intangible cultural heritage. In this website, contents are organized in sections according to criteria based on the recommendations of UNESCO and national legislation for inventorying the Intangible Cultural Heritage.