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
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Michael Tobert
The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris strolling in no hurry wearing bangles on their ankles, an elephant also in no hurry, and a cow that is lying down in the middle of the road chewing lazily a booklet entitled Dr W C Roy’s SPECIFIC FOR INSANITY. The camera pauses on a portion of the half-eaten text: “Dr Roy’s insanity medicine acted a charm. I am completely cured,” says Srinath Ghosh of Bundelkund. 5 rupee ...more
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

William Shakespeare
To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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