UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List entry for Gule Wamkulu, recording its 2005 proclamation and 2008 inscription, describing the Nyau brotherhood as a secret society of initiated men and the masked dance's role in celebrating young men's integration into adult society, tracing the practice to the seventeenth-century Chewa Empire.
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Citation
PublisherUNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
URLhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/gule-wamkulu-00142
Source TypeInternational body
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier one: UNESCO's own Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription record, independently confirming the Multimedia Archives catalog entry from a separate UNESCO source. Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Screen Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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