무형문화재에서 무형문화유산으로 －글로벌 시대의 문화 표상－

Abstract

The System of intangible cultural properties, legislated by enactment of the Protection of Cultural Properties Act at 1965, has selected the things considered to have historical and artistic value among the local lifestyles that were engaged relatively autonomous from the state, and operated them to function as a cultural representation to guarantee of national identity and the romantic national spirit. But now beyond the national level the cultural representation become a global representation, this aspect has been accelerated in a stiff competition among the East Asian countries surrounding UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. The change so-called from the intangible cultural properties to the intangible cultural heritage entails the change of the previous social status, meaning and function the cultural representation had, more than the change of its name. This paper investigate the aspects of the change with the sociological dimension of Durkheim and Ogino Masao who noted the meaning and functions of the social representation as theoretical methods. Ogino have explained the aspect that the local lifestyles are reborn as a cultural properties as the transition from the “order of memory” to “making heritage”, but this paper regards the change from the intangible cultural properties to the intangible cultural heritage as the transition from the “order of memory” to “making heritage.” And it argues the transition to be interlocking directly to the commodification of cultural heritage started to happen in late capitalist era.