Problemas en torno a la restitución del patrimonio. Una visión desde la antropología

• Francisco Cruces ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Salamanca

     Universidad de Salamanca

     Salamanca, España

     
• Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 8, Nº. 16, 1998 (Ejemplar dedicado a: El patrimonio cultural. Estudios contemporáneos), págs. 75-84
• Idioma: español
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  • Problems concerning legacy restitution. An antropological standpoint
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  • The article approaches diverse problems in regards to the idea of cultural legacy as “legacy for all”. The aspirations to represent social matters as a whole, contained in various definitions of legacy, turn out to become questionable, when seen as a social construction mediated by different sorts of cultural institutions. The concern of the symbolic work made by the State conservation agencies, the capitalist market and the technical-scientific conventions, allows the conceptualization of legacy as a field of negotiations and conflicts ruled by a great leading paradox. Because in legacy, culture and its agents recognize themselves as subjects, but they actually are constituted as objects of the mentioned mediation system