Author: Smithsonian Folklife

ICH & Sustainable Tourism Dialogue #4 – Action Research in Living Heritage and Tourism This fourth dialogue brings together researchers and practitioners who have worked closely with communities in Georgia and Armenia to co-develop sustainable cultural tourism based on intangible cultural heritage. Moderated by Michele McKenzie, the discussion features: Dr. Ketevan Gurchiani, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropology Research Center at Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia), who led the ethnographic research in Mukhrani with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; Dr. Ruzanna Tsaturyan, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, lecturer at Yerevan State…

Armenian musicians Grigor Kartashyan and Grigor Davtyan demonstrate their traditional woodwind and drum instruments at the … source