Unesco meets this week to consider 56 cultural traditions for ‘living heritage’ status
On the face of it, not much appears to link the French baguette, Georgia’s traditional equestrian games, Cuban light rum, Holy Week in Guatemala, Japan’s ritual Furyu-odori dances and the Maghreb hot chili-pepper paste known as harissa.
But along with Serbia’s šljivovica plum brandy, the oral tradition of camel-calling in Saudi Arabia, Oman and UAE and a central Asian lute called the Rubāb, all could soon be recognised as part of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage.
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