Cultural Capital Formation and Scale Transformation in the Context of Intangible Cultural Heritage Consumption: A Case of Chaoshan Yingge Dance
Received date: 2025-05-30
Revised date: 2025-07-20
Online published: 2025-12-02
Recently, the integration of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and tourism has generated new consumption hotspots that facilitate the transformation of cultural resources into cultural capital, producing notable economic and social benefits. Drawing on critical heritage studies, this research applies cultural capital theory and scale theory to examine Yingge Dance, a national-level ICH item originating from Chaoshan region (comprising 3 prefecture-level cities: Shantou, Jieyang and Chaozhou), China. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews, we explored the multi-scalar formation and scale transformation of cultural capital related to Yingge Dance. This study yielded three main findings. First, Yingge Dance embodies both cultural publicity and capital productivity. Its preservation and transmission depend on embodied practice, objectified transformation, and institutionalized support, reflecting a fusion of tradition and modernity as well as a symbiotic relationship between economy and culture. Second, at the individual scale, performers continually refine their bodily knowledge and skills in intergenerational practices, extending training and performance into broader community contexts. This process transforms Yingge Dance into cultural capital that fosters group cohesion and enhances community governance. At the regional scale, cultural tourism consumption and market participation accelerate the production of objectified cultural capital. Supported by local government initiatives, Yingge Dance becomes a form of urban cultural capital that stimulates tourism consumption and contributes to urban branding. At the national scale, China incorporates Yingge Dance into narratives of physical, moral, and aesthetic education, embedding it within cultural governance frameworks through top-down policy empowerment. This elevates Yingge Dance to national cultural capital that reflects cultural diversity and strengthens international competitiveness. Third, Yingge Dance has achieved the reproduction of the functions, values, and meanings by scaling up from group-level cultural capital to urban cultural capital and subsequently to national cultural capital. However, challenges emerge during this scaling-up process, including cognitive conflicts among stakeholders, blurred genre boundaries, uneven development, and diminishing authenticity. To address these issues, China promotes a scaling-down approach through policies and discursive frameworks to maintain the vitality of ICH transmission. This scaling down is reflected in the stewardship and empowerment of ICH bearers, incorporation of national ICH strategies into urban development agendas, and strengthening of local governments' narrative and discursive power. This study offers a critical perspective on understanding the practices and interactions of multiple actors in ICH inheritance. It also provides practical recommendations for cultural tourism development and the extraction of ICH value through the lens of cultural capital and scale theories.
Dahao Guo , Geng Lin , Yichao Li . Cultural Capital Formation and Scale Transformation in the Context of Intangible Cultural Heritage Consumption: A Case of Chaoshan Yingge Dance[J]. Tropical Geography, 2025 , 45(11) : 1927 -1938 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.20250359
表1 受访者信息Table 1 Information of Interviewees |
| 身份 | 编号 | 地区 |
|---|---|---|
| 当地居民 | R1~R16 | 广东汕头、潮州、揭阳 |
| 英歌舞队员 | P1~P3 | 广东广州(GCQN英歌队) |
| P4~P6 | 广东汕头(JZYC校园英歌队) | |
| P7~P9 | 广东汕头(FG英歌队) | |
| 游客 | T1~T3 | 广东汕头 |
| T4~T10 | T4-安徽安庆;T5-四川成都; T6-广东广州;T7-广东江门; T8-北京;T9-江苏苏州; T10-山西太原 |
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