Article: Traditional Culture

Created: Jan 06, 2007
Updated: Jan 14, 2008

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Traditional Culture

Traditional culture refers to the practice of preserving and promoting cultural practices, traditions and folklore, including traditional dance, handicrafts, art, storytelling, myths, oral history, customs, ceremonies, beliefs, and rites, ethnobiology

Keywords
folklore education, folklore training, expressive behavior, cultural memory, aesthetic appreciation, cultural diversity, folk painting, tribal, ritual, mythical, folk dance, crafts, traditional music, noninstitutional, collected wisdom, oral traditions, storytelling, ritualistic, rites, legends, myths, beliefs, customs, ethnographic concept, ethnic, tribal, cures, medicine, social fabric, validate social identities, fostering intergenerational communication, native people, handicraft, cultural appreciation, traditional knowledge

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Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States.