The other view would be that it is not being kept alive at all, that it has been captured, chloroformed, and preserved in formaldahyde--then dissected, mounted and put on display.

All by qualified, certified, and degreed "experts", who plunder and exploit for their own academic and personal profit.

I don't necessarily agree with this point of view, but I understand why people feel that way--there are a lot of unintended consequences when universities, with all their power and resources, bring them to bear on small, frail, and usually anachronistic folk and ethnic communities--

A small example would be when folklorists become interested in a particular kind of regional ethnic music, record, publicize, and promote the local performers to folk festivals, causing the best musicians to leave the community--