UNESCO certificate of Coaxing Ritual for Camel received

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UNESCO certificate of Coaxing Ritual for Camel received.

Mongolia receives UNESCO certificate of Coaxing Ritual for Camel. Mongolia’s coaxing rituals for camel inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in December of 2015. Coaxing Ritual for Camel is Mongolia’s 13^th cultural heritages inscribed on the UNESCO list. Mongolian herders perform the coaxing ritual to encourage a female camel to accept a new-born calf or to adopt an orphan. The mother is tied close to the calf and a singer begins a monotone song accompanied by gestures and chanting. The coaxer changes the melody depending on the mother’s behavior, which may be initially aggressive, and slowly coaxes her into accepting the calf. The ritual acts as a symbolic medium for creating and maintaining social ties among individual nomadic families and their community. It is transmitted from parents and elders to youth through home tutoring.