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Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

This is not a separate work: it is UNESCO's own inscription record for Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal, one entry in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the same continuously maintained official register this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that register rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Representative List record, or alongside another of its entries, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the register's own limit: an official designation record produced by the Intergovernmental Committee for the purpose of recognition and safeguarding, not a religiously neutral scholarly ethnography. Use it for this practice's inscription status, inscription year and the Committee's own stated description of it; a claim about its deeper history or meaning needs a source produced outside UNESCO.

Facts
Citation
Author
UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Publisher
UNESCO
Publication Year
2013
URL
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00908
Source Type
Heritage body
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
This is UNESCO's own inscription record for Xooy within the Representative List, treated at the top tier as the Intergovernmental Committee's own official primary designation record for this practice's inscription status.
Notes
UNESCO's own Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription for the Xooy divination ceremony of the Serer people of Senegal (2013); the official heritage listing, not a scholarly study of the practice.
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Derived From

This record's own Title names the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as the register it is entered under, and its Author names the Committee or UNESCO itself rather than an individual scholar; one entry inside that same continuously maintained official register, not a witness independent of it.

Source Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)

This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 2 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.
  • Religions, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Cultures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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