This is UNESCO's own World Heritage List entry for the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests of coastal Kenya, inscribed in 2008, the record establishing their recognition as sacred forest sites of the Mijikenda peoples. As the issuing body's own official record it is the correct source for the fact and date of that international heritage designation. Its limit is genre: it is an official designation record, not a scholarly or ethnographic study of Mijikenda kaya practice, elder councils or the forests' continuing religious use, so a claim about that living practice needs a source that engages the community's own religious life directly.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
UNESCO's own official World Heritage List designation record, an authoritative institutional record of recognition rather than a scholarly or ethnographic study of the forests' own continuing religious use, hence the middle tier. NotesUNESCO's own World Heritage List entry for the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (inscribed 2008); an official heritage-designation record, not a scholarly historical or religious study.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO World Heritage Centre
PublisherUNESCO
Publication Year2008
URLhttps://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1231/
Source TypeInternational body
Cross-Tradition Connections
Derived From
This record's own Title names the UNESCO World Heritage List as the register it is entered under, and its Author names the World Heritage Centre, the World Heritage Committee, or UNESCO itself rather than an individual scholar; one entry inside that same continuously maintained official register, not a witness independent of it.
Claims Backed By This Source (29 claims)
This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 connected.
- Sacred Sites, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
- Religions, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Subcategories, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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