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Short Abstract
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This roundtable aims to discuss the methodological, ethical issues related to the restitution of cultural heritage of the past through the rituals, objects, culinary traditions, family ceremonies, marriage and funerals that has been transmitted to the next generation in the host country regarding immigrant culture. This roundtable explores the ethical use of these traditions and tries to go through the different forms of transmission.
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Long Abstract
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The traditions of the past, the ceremonies, the rituals, the objects that belong to the communities are missing today in several countries. On the other hand, in a world of perpetual evolution, these cultural heritage have been transmitted within the immigrant communities to keep their ethnic identities through homogenisation. Simultaneously, there are confrontations between generations under the cultural transmissions.How to keep alive the missing rituals in the communities today, in the global society? How have the traditions, objects, and rituals (that are sometimes forgotten in home countries) have been kept by the diaspora to transmit to new generations in immigrant countries? How to present the missing ceremonies to the new generations? How the new technology and social network have become the means to keep the cultural heritage. How does the symbolized object, culinary tradition, poetry, new year celebration, wedding and funerals, …preserve these traditions alive in everyday life? How has the cultural heritage of the past to their source communities been brought to an international audience and have made a bridge between different cultures?In the perpetual changing world, people’s mobility from the countries under the war, under disputes, under economic turmoil, under natural catastrophe, and colonization, the objects and traditions have become the vehicle of the memory of the past for future through transmission.The purpose of this roundtable is exchange through the different experiences to keep the cultural heritage alive and to explore the bridges between past (traditions), present (practice) and future (transmission) through differents mediums: the written (field notebooks, the audiovisual), the practices (rituals, culinary traditions, weddings, and funerals), and symbolized objects. Through the different contributions we can explore new ways of keeping the cultural heritage around the world through concrete examples:Iranian immigrants to Japan and in Europe, American Jewish diaspora in Israel, Turkish immigratiob sin Japan...
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