d. "Cultural property" shall refer to all products of human creativity by which a
people and a nation reveal their identity, including churches, mosques and other
places of religious worship, schools and natural history specimens and sites,
whether public or privately-owned, movable or immovable, and tangible or
intangible.
e. "Intangible cultural heritage" shall refer to the practices, representations,
expressions, knowledge, skills as well as the instruments, objects and artifacts
associated therewith, that communities, groups and individuals recognize as part
of their cultural heritage, such as: (1) oral traditions, languages and expressions;
(2) performing arts; (3) social practices, rituals and festive events; (4) knowledge
and practices concerning nature and the universe; and (5) traditional
craftsmanship;
f. "Intangible cultural property" shall refer to the people's learned processes along
with the knowledge, skills and creativity that inform and are developed by them,
the products they create and the resources, spaces and other aspects of social and
natural context necessary for their sustainability.
g. "Registry" shall refer to the Philippine Registry of Cultural Property which is the
registry of all cultural property of the country deemed of significant importance
to our cultural heritage as defined in RA 10066;
h. "Tangible cultural property" shall refer to a cultural property with historical,
archival, anthropological, archeological, artistic and architectural value, and with
exceptional or traditional production, whether of Philippine origin or not,
including antiques and natural history specimens with significant value.
i. "Tradition" shall refer to the beliefs, customs, practices, industries, expressions,
whether tangible or intangible, maintained and shared differentially by society,
and handed down from generation to generation. Tradition in this respect is a
continuum that change and may arise in time shall not therefore be subject to
time limitation.
j. "Community" refers to the congregation of people with social cohesion and
identity organized around common values interacting with intimacy and
reciprocity in a shared circumscribed location in units larger than a household;
and has more similarities in the types and forms of their material goods.
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