%0 Journal Article %T Inheritance and Identity of Cultural Heritage %A Olimpia Niglio %J Advances in Literary Study %P 1-4 %@ 2327-4050 %D 2014 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/als.2014.21001 %X

Generally the community describesthe ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± such as historic, artistic, scientific and traditional. These definitions often coincide with the attribution of ˇ°valueˇ± and ˇ°identityˇ±. Many answers about what could ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± be are explained as a set together with their specific value, such as landscape and architecture of high artistic value and historic materials of scientific value. In contrast it is not possible to rely on this generality of definitions. The reality shows that the definition of value of ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± changes in relation to the person, culture, geography, social and economic conditions. In other words, in relation to the person, the standpoint of value of ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± is different according to each category, such as ruins, works of art, historic cities and gardens, and it is rare that one category simultaneously holds many of such values. It is believed that there are no words or phrases that comprehensively explain the various values that prescribe ˇ°cultural heritageˇ±. Therefore in defining ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± its values not must be specifically expressed as historic, artistic, scientific and others, but should be left in a way that can correspond also to the concept of a ˇ°cultural heritageˇ± the significance of identity and of inheritance. Define the value of cultural heritage means to analyze the identity of the site and its contents of inheritance. The concepts of value and inheritance analyzed here are not related to economic considerations. Differently these concepts are analyzed with reference to scientific theories of A.K. Sen, M. W. Feldman and L. Cavalli-Sforza. In fact this paper proposes a reflection on these concepts with the support of interdisciplinary studies.

%K Scientific Value %K Identity %K Inheritance %K Knowledge %K Cultural Proprieties %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=42138