Preserving kumartuli, Kolkata as living cultural heritage associated with durga puja

Dey, Anindita

dc.contributor.author	Dey, Anindita
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-01T09:55:30Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-01T09:55:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-01T09:55:30Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-01T09:55:37Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/71
dc.description.sponsorship	Intangible cultural heritage is practices, customs and rituals that are associated with a particular culture and their continuity depends on that society. The transmission of the knowledge, practice, customs and rituals helps in making it a living cultural heritage. Cultural heritage constitutes of both intangible and tangible heritage. Tangible heritage like the buildings, monuments, landscape, artifacts are the outcome of intangible association of the culture and tradition. The beliefs and cultural practice of a society provides an identity to people who are part of it and makes them distinct from the other communities in the world. The intangible heritage is created by communities and they help in transmission. Oral traditions, performing arts, social practice, rituals, fairs and festivals, traditional craftsmanship all are manifestation of intangible cultural heritage and needs to be regarded as Living cultural heritage. Out of them, fairs and festivals play a vital role in conveying and expressing the faith and belief of the religion. In Hinduism, there is a belief of worshipping a physical form of God. Therefore most of the festivals like Navratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja, Diwali (Kali puja), Janmasthami, Gangaur puja, Shivratr, is carried out by practicing idol worship. It is also important to understand that for each festival the form of idol changes according to the geography.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	SPA, Bhopal	en_US
dc.subject	Preserving kumartuli	en_US
dc.title	Preserving kumartuli, Kolkata as living cultural heritage associated with durga puja	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US