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Cultural Sustainability: A Framework for Relationships, Understanding, and Action
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 133, Number 527, Winter 2020
- pp. 81-99
- Article
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Abstract:
In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and related disciplines. This essay frames its key intellectual inspirations and provides a provisional definition of the term as an area of practice. It also adumbrates a set of principles for evaluating cultural sustainability efforts and a pathway for enacting them.