ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the question of the gender dynamics of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in order to explore the ways in which developing new treaties in diverse fields has thrown up new challenges for international regulation that cannot be addressed through the legal discipline alone. It explores the ways in which an anthropological perspective poses challenges for the human rights law within which the 2003 Convention is clearly framed and can offer insights into weaknesses of the human rights vision, while respecting the requirements of the law as a discipline. The chapter illustrates the variety of gender dynamics at play in ICH and, hence, the complexity of safeguarding these appropriately. It seeks to explores, striking an appropriate balance between legal and non-legal expertise in this process in order to ensure a sufficiently nuanced but well-grounded approach towards gender and it illustrates examples of gender diversity in ICH.
