Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as p
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Middlesex
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Watercress
Uses of Heritage
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Joy Luck Club
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Chögyam Trungpa
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Patricia Briggs
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran
Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf

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