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customary in religious or other solemn use, or a particular fonn of system of
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religious or other ceremony;
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s.) "Rituals" refer to an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or
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other rite, a system or collection of religious or other rites; observance of set
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forms in public worship; a prescribed or established rite, ceremony, proceeding.
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or service: the ritual of the dead; prescribed, established or ceremonial acts or
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features collectively, as in religious services; any practice or pattern of behavior
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regulating social conduct;
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t.) "Performance" refers to the acting out of a ceremony, play, piece of music, etc.,
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the execution or accomplishment of work acts, feats, etc., a particular action,
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deed or proceeding the manner in which or the efficiency with which something
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reacts or fulfills its intended purpose, and not necessarily as part of social
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process;
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.u.) "Ownership" refers to the legal right of possession or proprietorship; the state,
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relation, or fact' of being an owner; also, the rights or interests of an owner,
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ownership especially by a single person that is free of any encumbrances or
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limitations other than statutory.
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v.) "Culture" - The UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies (Mexico,
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1982) defines culture, in its widest sense, as the whole complex of distinctive
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s'piritual, material, intellectual, and en;lOtional features that characterize a society
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or a social group. This includes not only the arts and letters but also modes of
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life, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Culture, however, can also be looked at
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as an aggregate and internally inconsistent body of knowledge and meanings,
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unevenly distributed among individuals of a community, and acquired by these
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individuals through their experiences and transactions in everyday life.
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SECTION 4. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
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hereinafter referred to as the Commission, shall implement the provisions of the
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Act.
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SECTION 5. Traditional cultural property, whether tangible or intangible, of all
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the ethno-linguistic groups that make up the people of the Philippines shall not
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lapse into public domain after 50 years from creation, and shall continue
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indefinitely to be exclusive property of
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communally own them. Traditional heritage, both tangible and intangible are to
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theseethno~linguistic
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groups that