Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Common abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I A decade later: critical reflections on the UNESCO-ICH paradigm -- 1 Development of UNESCO's 2003 Convention: creating a new heritage protection paradigm? -- 2 The examination of nomination files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage -- 3 A conversation with Richard Kurin -- 4 Placing intangible cultural heritage, owning a tradition, affirming sovereignty: the role of spatiality in the practice of the 2003 Convention -- 5 Is intangible cultural heritage an anthropological topic? Towards interdisciplinarity in France -- 6 The impact of UNESCO's 2003 Convention on national policy-making: developing a new heritage protection paradigm? -- Part II Reality check: the challenges facing intangible cultural heritage and its safeguarding -- 7 From the bottom up: the identification and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Guyana -- 8 Making the past pay? Intangible (cultural) heritage in South Africa and Mauritius -- 9 A conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora: protecting intangible cultural heritage in Cuba -- 10 The management of intangible cultural heritage in China -- 11 Aging musically: tangible sites of intangible cultural heritage -- 12 Intangible cultural heritage in the Czech Republic: between national and local heritage -- 13 Damming Ava Mezin: challenges to safeguarding minority intangible cultural heritage in Turkey -- 14 Documenting and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: the experience in Scotland -- Part III Intangible cultural heritage up close -- 15 Officially ridin' swangas: slab as tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Houston, Texas