Amid COVID 19, UNESCO Peru defines new ways to inventory living heritage with communities in Ayacucho, Peru
Project: Community-based inventorying of intangible heritage in urban areas (1 January 2018 – 1 December 2021) The call for participation in the pilot project ‘Community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage in the urban context of Ayacucho: Peru’ attracted hundreds of applicants. Of these: 56 selected public officials: archaeologists: anthropologists: communicators: teachers: bearers: practitioners and cultural managers came together in January 2020 for an initial training workshop with the objective to set up the methodological framework for the inventorying and to plan the process. However: when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Peru in March 2020: a gene...