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