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The Gangneung Danoje Festival


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The annual Gangneung Danoje Festival takes place in the town of Gangneung and its surroundings, situated east of the Taebaek Mountain Range on the Korean peninsula.The festival includes a shamanistic ritual on the Daegwallyeong Ridge, which pays tribute to the mountain deity and male and female tutelary deities. It encompasses traditional music and Odokddegi folk songs, the Gwanno mask drama, oral narrative poetry, and various popular pastimes. The Nanjang market, Korea's largest outdoor marketplace, is today a major element of the festival, where local products and handicrafts are sold and contests, games and circus performances take place.


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Place/region: Nanjang market, Republic of Korea, Asia and the Pacific
Series: Inscriptions on the Intangible Heritage Lists
Type: Documentary
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Rights: UNESCO
 

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Original: DVD
Location: F-H.129
UMVS reference: AUD-DIT/ISS/ARC/0560
Digitized version : AVFONDS-CLTITH-2008-00114.DV

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