Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
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This could see different festivals, folklore or traditional tales, Morris dancing and certain skills and crafts protected.
Religious heritage in the UK faces a funding crisis. Both the buildings and those who worship in them need to be considered.
Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
Productions such as Braveheart and Outlander present a narrow version of Scottish cultural identity.
When the British government expelled Chagos Islanders from their homeland, it put a unique culture at risk of erasure.
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Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Anthropology of Migration, The University of Edinburgh
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Reader in Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Reading
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