Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as p
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Zeitoun
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Middlesex
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Watercress
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Uses of Heritage
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Elizabeth Street

Abhijit Naskar
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Michael Tobert
The street outside is empty, lit only by a half moon; yet factory engines beat in the background and the working day is about to begin. Maggie steps out of the tenement and suddenly the street begins to fill with women, some running, some pulling their jackets around them, some lighting pipes, some, like Maggie herself, taking a pinch of snuff. From other tenements come other women, and soon all merge into one, like a herd of cattle off to market, clopping over the stone pavements and the cobble ...more
Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

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