Recognising cultural gold - Union pipes

Trying to agree which of this island’s expressions of our culture(s) is the most endangered has the makings of a lively parlour game. Indeed, it may even help sustain a much beloved, but endangered tradition — the high-stool bar debate.

Trying to agree which of this island’s expressions of our culture(s) is the most endangered has the makings of a lively parlour game. Indeed, it may even help sustain a much beloved, but endangered tradition — the high-stool bar debate.

Unesco has extended its list of “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” to include the art of the Neapolitan pizza maker, or ‘pizzaiuolo’; the ritual Kumbh Mela baths taken in India; Bosnian woodcarving, and the ‘Sega tambour’ dance and song performances of Mauritius’s Rodrigues Island.