Question

Define cultural products and give six examples of them

Answer 1

Cultural products include the defined and recognised goods or services that may range from the arts, heritage conservation and/or festivals. UNESCO in order to give them distinctive recognition has declared these products as not like the generic forms of merchandise. These products embody and inculcate in them the aesthetic features and style that are deeply enrooted in the local traditions and culture. They suggest the cultural value or distinctive nature of the culture. These products are generally manually created and suggest the ethnic, local, aesthetic, cultural appeal or significance. They are referred to as crafts, handcrafts, ethnic products. These products are produced by local artisans either completely by hand or with a little amount of help of hand-tools.

Six examples of cultural products:

1. Artefacts: These include the objects or things created and therefore adopted as a lifestyle or inculcated in their culture by the members of that culture.

2. Places: These are those places that signify or define the importance or the significance of the local culture. The place may form as a part of either their religious or traditional local belief.

3. Heritage: These may include the local houses, structures or hubs of the people which are unique to the members of that culture and therefore gives them unique identity. The difference may be that of structural or living.

4. Artforms: These reflect and enmesh in them the aesthetic look and the basic philosophy of that culture. Example pots, papermachie'.

5. Handicrafts: These are the products that are distinct and possess the aesthetic value and are made with the zero or little machine help.

6. Institutions: These may include museums, libraries, art factories, religious places that are unique to the identity of that culture.