Volume 4,Issue 1
From “Artisan” to “Social Innovator”: The Role Transformation and Action Logic of Mud Cuckoo Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors
This paper focuses on inheritors of the intangible cultural heritage of Mud Cuckoos, exploring their transformation from traditional artisans to social innovators. It analyzes how, amid the fragmentation of cultural fields, these inheritors have constructed an open connection logic of action through identity reshaping, aesthetic awakening, and capital intervention. Simultaneously, it critically examines the tensions faced during modernization, including the alienation of craftsmanship and the capture by elites. The conclusion asserts that inheritors are fundamentally agents of subjectivity awakening. Intangible cultural heritage transmission should transcend mere technical preservation, returning to its sociological essence to achieve the perpetual circulation of culture and the symbiosis of values through social interaction.
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