FILIPINO

CULTURE
HERITAGE
Filipino Cultural Heritage

Refers to "the totality of cultural property preserved and

developed through time and passed on to posterity." (RA
10066)

"Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with

today, and what we pass on to future generations." (World
Heritage Commission, UNESCO.)
The World Heritage List includes six Philippines properties:

1. Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park

2. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
3. Historic City of Vigan
4. Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
5. Baroque Churches of the Philippines
6. Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
1. Tubbataha Reef National Marine
Park
2. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
3. Historic City of Vigan
4. Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
5. Baroque Churches of the Philippines
6. Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
Tangible Heritage

- Refers to things that we can store or physically touch.

- Environment (natural landscapes coastal and inland water sources)

- Flora and Fauna
- Man-made structures
Tangible Heritage

Chocolate Hills , Carmen, Bohol Philippine Eagle

Tangible Heritage

Oldest House: 1730 Jesuit House, Urban Heritage Site:

Cebu Vigan
Tangible Heritage

Santo Thomas de Villanueva Church, Miag-

ao Ilo-Ilo
Tangible Heritage

Costumes
Tangible Heritage

Wood Carving
Tangible Heritage

Philippine Literature
 Intangible Heritage
- includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and
passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social
practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature
and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts.

Culture (traditions, customs, values, and skills)

Intangible Heritage

Sinulog
Festival
Intangible Heritage

Folk
Dance
Cuisine
"Philippine foodways clearly reflect Philippine History: the
foreign influences being indigenized into a changing culture.
An exploration of these patterns will obviously provide a key
to the understanding of national identity. The study of food
as culture within the context of colonization leads to an
understanding of the fate of the local culture under the
hegemony of the dominant cultures of the colonizers" (Doreen
Fernanandez, Tikim)
Language

"In Tagalog, emotion is dalamhati (literally, "inside the

lover") and intense feelings of grief, yearning, and happiness
are pighati, lunggati, and luwalhati" (Resil Mojares, "Heart
and Liver").
Cultural Heritage
Conservation
Article 1, Policies and Principles, Sec.2 of the National
Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 declares that the State shall
foster the preservation, enrichment, and dynamic evolution of
a Filipino Culture based on the Principle and unity in
diversity in a climate of free artistic and intellectual
expression.
Cultural Heritage
Conservation
According to the Heritage Conservation Society,
"conservation" entails all the processes and measures of
maintaining the cultural significance of a cultural property,
including, but not limited to, preservation, reconstruction,
protection, adaptation, or any combination thereof."
Benefits of Cultural Conservation
"When cultural heritage is appreciated, enhanced and
enriched, socio-cultural, religious, political and economic
gains are manifested. The value of cultural heritage is seen in
the strengthening of the sense of national, regional and local
identity, as it value is complementary to other goods and
services in which the external benefits as part of the
education and acculturation if the young." (Dick Netzer)
Related institution, entities, and laws:
-historic preservation division, under the national historical
commission of the Philippines.
-national commission for the culture and the arts.
-heritage conservation society (non-government organization)
-republic act no 10066, or the national cultural heritage act of
2009
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MUCH!