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Unesco’S Cultural Heritage Lists: Protecting Indigenous Traditional Sports And Games, Jesse W. Busta

Jesse Busta

This Note, entitled UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage Lists: Protecting Indigenous Traditional Sports and Games, will be the first to examine fully from a legal perspective a proposal to develop a means for protecting indigenous traditional sports and games, which are a valuable asset to all humanity. Protections are needed for indigenous traditional sports and games due to the harmful effects of globalization and the deviation of today’s people from their ancestors’ traditions. Currently, only tangible cultural heritage and limited intangible cultural heritage are protected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (“UNESCO”). Cultural heritage forms the backbone of human …