Group-2-UCSP

• Values


  Shared perceptions of what is good, right, and important in society.
• Values are reflections of our commitments and serve as standards against which we judge actions, including our own and those of others
• Ethnocentrism


  Believing that one's own ways are superior to others
• Cultural relativism


  Trying to understand and evaluate a culture by considering its own standards and beliefs, rather than judging it by the standards of one's own culture
• Cultural heritage


  Expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values
• Types of cultural heritage

  • Built environment (e.g. buildings, townscapes, archaeological remains)
  • Natural environment (e.g. rural landscapes, coasts and shorelines, agricultural heritage)
  • Artifacts (e.g. books, documents, pictures)
• Intangible heritage


  Includes voices, values, traditions, and oral history, such as cuisine, clothing, forms of shelter, traditional skills and technologies, religious ceremonies, performing arts, and storytelling
• Actions for protecting cultural heritage

  • Conservation - Preventing decay and prolonging the life of cultural heritage
  • Preservation - Retaining the building or monument in a sound static condition
  • Restoration - Returning an artifact to a previous physical condition
  • Conversion - Adapting a building to accommodate a new use
  • Reconstruction - Recreating a vanished building on its original site
• Importance of cultural heritage sites

  • Evidential value - Potential to yield evidence about past human activity
  • Historical value - Illustrative and associative value regarding cultural development
  • Aesthetic value - Sensory and intellectual stimulation from the place
  • Communal value - Meanings and collective experiences for people
• Heritage cycle


  When we learn about our cultural heritage, we start to appreciate it more, which makes us want to take care of it, so that future generations can enjoy it too
• Cultural agencies in the Philippines

  • Cultural Center of the Philippines - responsible for significant cultural property pertaining to the performing arts
  • National Archives of the Philippines - responsible for significant archival materials
  • National Library - responsible for rare and significant contemporary Philippine books, manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, and electronic records
  • National Historical Institute - responsible for significant movable and immovable cultural properties that pertain to Philippine history, heroes and the conservation of historical artifacts