Thailand’s ‘khon’ masked dance is named by the United Nations as an ‘intangible’ cultural asset.
‘Khon’, Thailand’s masked dance drama, has been inscribed on Unesco’s representative list of humanity’s “intangible” cultural heritage – a decision reached at the 13th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural
What is “intangible cultural heritage”?
Practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces that are considered by Unesco to be part of a place’s cultural heritage.
Since 2008, 509 elements from 122 countries have been listed as intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) on:
1 A list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding
2 A representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity
3 A register of good safeguarding practices
Thailand’s Khon masked dance drama