The world patrimonialization processes: The case of Ver-o-Peso (BR)

• Maisa Fonseca de Almeida ^[1] ; Joana d´Arc de Oliveira ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de São Paulo

     Universidade de São Paulo

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Intangibility Matters: IPERION CH International Conference on the values of tangible heritage: IMaTTe 2017 / coord. por Marluci Menezes, Dória Rodrigues Costa, Jose Delgado Rodrigues, 2017, ISBN 9789724922959, págs. 319-328
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Concerning the contemporary debates on the preservation of material and immaterial cultural heritage, this work consider the importance of the immaterial heritage in cultural policies of the material heritage in a historic urban ensemble. It was analyzed the transformation process of a singular asset into a global cultural asset, through the Ver-o-Peso patrimonialization process, in the city of Belém (Brazil), according to the international and multilateral cultural heritage preservation agency UNESCO. The research methodology focused on the analysis of its apllication documents, which explains the reason why this cultural property should be named and classified as world cultural heritage. This research allows us to observe the existence of some contradictions in this patrimonialization process and in its concept of heritage since the immaterial heritage is mentioned in the apllication documents even though there is no recomendation and preservation specific plan to preserve its symbolic expression and contents.