An anthropologist is advising a minority culture about how to preserve its cultural heritage

They are concerned that their characteristic fabric coloring and patterning style is being copied and manufactured by an international corporation and sold as an "authentic" product of their culture. The anthropologist should advise this group to pursue the issue according to what policy or legal framework?
A) UNESCO's 1972 definition of material cultural heritage
B) the passage of the NAGPRA act in the United States in 1990
C) UNESCO's 2003 effort to maintain intangible cultural heritage
D) the World Bank's "do no harm" policy


Answer: C

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