Patrimônio : herança ou interesses? um estudo sobre a política cultural aplicada ao patrimônio cultural de Pernambuco (1979 - 2010)

Abstract

The following master's thesis aims to historicize the cultural policy for the Pernambuco’s heritage, over the period 1979-2010, and thus identify which cultural goods legitimized by technical tools and legal officers in the state. Namely: Sistema Estadual de Tombamento de Pernambuco, Concurso Público do Registro do Patrimônio Vivo de Pernambuco, Registro de Patrimônio Imaterial de Pernambuco and Projetos de Lei Ordinária para Patrimônio Imaterial de Pernambuco. We also seek to understand how these instruments were led by individuals and institutions to mobilize, at different times, cultural values and symbolic meanings in the construction of state identity process. Our research is grounded in theoretical perspective that encompasses the cultural heritage as a field in dispute, in which different agents attend constructing a discourse that appropriates practices and objects and expropriates to elect certain values in society from diverse interests. For reference are used studies focused on analysis of social practices, proposed by Pierre Bourdieu (2012), in order to identify the details and nuances of conflicts in policy arenas in contention for the symbolic power to elect which goods will be included or not in the universe heritage of Pernambuco. Also we rely on research carried out by Benedict Anderson (2008), Dominique Poulot (2009), José Murilo de Carvalho (2012), Maria Cecilia London Fonseca (2009), Márcia Chuva (2012), Roger Chartier (1990) and other researchers were critical to the development of theoretical discussions present in this dissertation. Our documentary sources are official files that are part of the institutionalization process of Pernambuco heritage as requirements for tipping, technical reports of the Fundação do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico de Pernambuco (Fundarpe), Tombo books of material heritage, meeting minutes of the Conselho Estadual de Cultura (CEC), notices of Concurso Público do Registro do Patrimônio Vivo, the official list of the living heritage inventory, Registration books of intangible heritage, ordinary bills of the Assembléia Legislativa de Pernambuco (ALEPE), as well as laws and other documents of interest for the development of research. In view of the need to write a cultural history on patrimonialization process of cultural goods of Pernambuco, our proposal aims to understand the heritage not as a cultural inheritance, but with a set of symbolic goods valued and reflected in the attempt to represent a supposed version the past, culture or memory, and thus legitimize Pernambuco identity that matters to certain agents and social groups.