The contribution of folk traditions documentation and development project in the reproduction of folklore Analytical study of some elements of the intangible cultural heritage

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Girls College - Sociology Department - Anthropology and Folklore Division Ain Shams University

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In the light of the numerous attempts to establish an archive of Egyptian folklore, which was associated with the experience of Both Rushdi Saleh and AbdelHamid Younis, Rushdie Saleh has been interested since his supervision of the Center for Popular Arts Studies in Cairo in 1958 to provide an integrated scientific vision establishment of the Institute of Popular Arts. This idea is also not complete.
Asaad Nadim and Ahmed Morsi were able to work on the establishment of an archive of Egyptian folklore based on scientific and methodological foundations and the project was implemented and met with tremendous success since its inception in 2007 until now in 2020, and work continues.
This research is part of a PhD thesis entitled: Fertility and Childbearing in Popular Belief, an evaluation study of the project for documenting and developing folklore, and the current research deals with the archive as a tool to reproduce heritage through several basic processes: folklore groups and heritage reproduction, and the reproduction of material folk elements , Mass media, heritage reproduction, folk art, heritage reproduction.
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