This is not a separate work: it is UNESCO's own inscription record for Semah, the Alevi-Bektasi ritual, 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 account of Alevi-Bektasi belief. Use it for this practice's inscription status, its 2010 inscription year and the Committee's own stated description of it; a claim about Alevi-Bektasi theology or history needs a source produced outside UNESCO.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
This is UNESCO's own inscription record within the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, treated at the top tier as the Intergovernmental Committee's own official primary designation record for this ritual's inscription status and year, notwithstanding that it speaks in the register's own institutional voice rather than as independent scholarly ethnography of Alevi-Bektasi belief. NotesInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, on Turkey's nomination.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO
PublisherUNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Publication Year2010
URLhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/semah-alevi-bektasi-ritual-00384
Source TypeInternational body
Cross-Tradition Connections
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 held Differently. 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.
- Sacred Dances, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Religious Orders, 3 claims: 1 holds, 1 held Differently, 1 general references.
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