ABSTRACT
The topic of disrespect and loss of ethical behavior in Haya villages evokes more emotion and agitated discussion among people older than 30 than any other subject. This loss pertains to heritage, the loss of values enshrined over centuries of social life. There is a cleavage today between the youthful majority younger than 20 and adults older than 30, a cleavage that is chronological, demographic, and cultural. This cleavage represents a loss of intangible heritage in the region. The loss of intangible heritage is more difficult to identify and to catalog and therefore is virtually off our radar. As anthropologists, we are constantly aware of how globalization erodes intangible heritage such as song, ritual, dance, and oral literature, but the very nature of the intangible makes it more difficult to comprehend the scale of change that infects much of the globe today. Change and disappearance of intangible heritage present some onerous challenges to anthropologists who are students of heritage.
