Documenting India’s Intangible Cultural Heritage

This manual by Nerupama Y. Modwel, Principal Director, ICH Division of INTACH, and Surajit Sarkar, Video/Documentary filmmaker, is meant as a handbook on documentation. It presents guidelines that INTACH and other ICH collectors have developed for the collection of oral history, folklore, and cultural expressions from community members. The publication encourages individuals and institutions to celebrate, disseminate, and advance the intangible cultural heritage of traditional communities, and record potentially endangered knowledge systems.

Year of publication: 2013.