Cultural Heritage Misfits

Perspectives from Developing Worlds

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Abstract

Considering that the dialectic of affirmation and contestation of hegemonies constantly modifies, reconstructs and shifts identities, and that human creativity incessantly reinvents social life, it can be expected that official protection does not guarantee a safe place in the cultural pantheon for CH. Heritage can be integrated to the local cultures or refused by them. It can be forgotten, re-encountered, remade, reinvented or trigger unexpected symbolic meanings and practices. This is a challenge that is perennially placed before the institutions responsible for the protection and conservation of these officially protected treasures.


open access | peer reviewed

Presentato: 20 Dicembre 2016 | Accettato: 21 Marzo 2017 | Pubblicato 31 Dicembre 2017 | Lingua: en

Keywords Appropriation • Social memory • Politics of place • Dialogue • Exclusion • Cultural heritage

Copyright © 2017 Antonio Arantes. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-18


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