Importance of Cultural Research

Research is one of the most important aspect of the culture and tourist sector as it is the driving force of every cultural event because it heavily rely on event of past findings.

Cultural Research means any endeavor, by means of critical investigation and study of a subject, to discover new or collate old facts or hypotheses on a cultural subject, the latter being defined as any ethnographic or anthropological study, including basic data collection, studies of or incorporating traditional knowledge or classifications systems (e.g. studies of medicinal properties of plants), documentary films, archaeology, linguistics and ethno-historical accounts.

Research has so many important and Bellow are highlight of some of them.

1. Research activities gives room for the  documentation of very important cultural activities in any country:

it is through research activities that hidden and yet to be exposed cultural  activities and events are brought to the lime light by scholars for the benefit and upliftment of a nation and the cultural sector at large. Most of these activities includes festivals, dances, sports, marriage rites, processions and other related events that represents the culture of a particular people. When this activities are researched the results most of the times corrects misconception, and put any discourse into perspective.

2. It gives room for the documentation of artifacts and cultural practices.

Artifacts are objects made by human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest. Research activities precedes all documentation activities in the cultural industry. And this documentation could either be electronic or manual for reference by future researchers and culture enthusiasts. Artifacts which mostly researched upon can include buildings, sculptures, utensils and other materials of cultural interest.

3. Increase the information base:

research activities leads to the increase and expansion of the information data base in the cultural sector. It is through research activities that most people who want to add to the existing knowledge about any area of culture can contribute. The continues existence of any discourse depends solely on the avalanche of materials available either on line or off line which can only be guaranteed by research activities.

research activities most times leads to the promotion and expansion of cultural activities of any nation which will by implications lead to national development. Those researchers most often dig deep into details of activities that are culturally related and thereby preventing them from going into extinction as the literature or findings that are either online on on the pages of books in the library would live

5. Protection of languages and cultural practices:

research activities leads to the protection of cultural practices and most importantly the language which most developing countries use as a catalyst for development of other sectors. Languages when not properly research and documented would invariabily lead to the languages becoming moribond. Research activities thereby broaden the the language and cultural discourse.

not all cultural practices are good, there are practices that are very harmful to human existence. Such practices includes female genital mutilation, killing of twins, female inheritance, widowhood and other related practices. It is through research activities that this practices would be brought to limelight and be repelled.

7. It is used for educational purposes:

cultural research is till date used for academic purposes in various educational courses of study such as anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and other related courses. At the end of academic programmes these researches forms part of the requirements for graduation.

most research findings are the bedrock through which major policies are created or altered. In the same vein cultural research finding are used for policy formulation and modifications which will ultimately lead to development of the cultural sector.

It is important to note that for any nation to achieve any meaningful development the cultural sector must be propely positioned and Research  is  fundamental  to  the  cultural  development  of  any  Nation.

Research is what drives the cultural sector and makes it more viable and sellable in the industry, which makes every concerned person to understand the importance of cultural research.