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Intangible Cultural Heritage: A step forward in the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in Colombia

The peoples of Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kankuamo from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta recently achieved recognition of their ancestral knowledge systems as culturally relevant elements and became an established part of the Colombian Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Among others, such ancestral knowledge includes their language and oral traditions, social organisation, …