The Study of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mount Tai from Aesthetic Anthropology Perspective

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10.2991/icssr-13.2013.149How to use a DOI?

Keywords

intangible culture heritage of Mount Tai; folk art; aesthetic anthropology; culture preservation

Abstract

The folk culture usually presents in three parts of belief cognition, living behavior and emotional item, whose relation and interaction are the key role of understanding the anthropological significance of folk art, as well as the major theoretical framework of aesthetic anthropology to study existing significance of intangible cultural heritage of the folk art kind. As a major part of Chinese culture, the intangible cultural heritage of Mount Tai possesses rich aesthetic anthropologic characteristics. The exploitation of the intangible culture of Mount Tai’s value will facilitate the study of the evolution of Mount Tai culture so that to further promote preservation of traditional intangible culture. As an interdisciplinary subject of aesthetics, literature science and anthropology, aesthetic anthropology roots its academic approach in aesthetics and culture, and is crucial to the thorough study of relationship between aesthetics and real life as well as historical progress. Trending towards a new disciplinary subject, since 1970s aesthetic anthropology gradually formed and then developed with lots of achievements from Western researchers, which exerted a measure of influence over the development of domestic aesthetics and literature science. In the field of aesthetic anthropology, beauty isn’t a kind of isolated, pure cultural phenomenon, but an existing of being constructed, a subtle way to depict relations in the realistic life. Examining and appreciating the intangible cultural heritage of Mount Tai in perspective of aesthetic anthropology is of considerable practical significance to the exploitation and preservation of intangible cultural heritage so that to further expand its denotation as well as vitality.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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