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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Zeitoun
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
Decoded

Tahir Shah
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

Sheridan  Brown
When Booker first started working for her a few years ago and was living in their home, she saw him cower with apprehension every time she snapped a new order or made him redo tasks more than once, twice, or three times. Now, she knew that he understood her ways better, her need for order, cleanliness, and strict attention to details. She felt he was beginning to realize just what this fifty-seven-year-old Yankee schoolteacher expected of her thirteen-year-old house servant and pupil. He began t ...more
Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor

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