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).

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Cultural Heritage Books

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera

A Place at the Nayarit by Natalia Molina

National Hispanic Heritage Month (fiction and nonfiction)

183 books — 66 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Novels about Big Houses

54 books — 27 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Native American lit

40 books — 13 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Overseas Vietnamese Reading List

31 books — 11 voters

Keep It Together, Keiko Carter by Debbi Michiko Florence

Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai by Debbi Michiko Florence

Sweet and Sour by Debbi Michiko Florence

This Is How I Roll by Debbi Michiko Florence

Young Adult and Middle Grade With Asian American/Indian American Protagonists

19 books — 1 voter

Law In and As Culture by Caroline Joan S. Picart

Law In and As Culture: Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities)

57 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Cultural Heritage”

“ Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident. ”
― Thomas Jefferson

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“ The gingko tree leans lazily against the facing wall or perhaps it supports it; Stephen cannot be sure. The dense ridges of its bark now appear like rippled sand with, here and there, pools left behind by the tide. The bark is pocked with white spots, holed and crinkled with age, seemingly dead but for the life sprouting in its leaves, so smooth, so green, so deep. How remarkable this tree is, how changeable, how mysterious its leaves and branches and trunk … how infinite. Stephen reaches for an ...more ”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

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