“Saberes e fazeres” em casos de tombamentos e registros da práxis preservacionista nacional em Alagoas: contribuição ou uma questão de interpretação?

Abstract

This study addresses the difficulty in articulating the legal and political realities to local traditions and customs that can effectively safeguarding of the material and immaterial patrimony. Highlights the trajectory of policy preservation of cultural heritage in Brazil and the collaborations of Mario de Andrade when the institutionalization, in 1937, the Service of National Historical and Artistic Heritage in Brazil, called Sphan. Reflects on the broadening of the concept and the multiple social and symbolic dimensions of culture, and how to set the terms of material and intangible heritage. Investigates how the protection mechanisms consolidated through tipping and registration, match the particularities of the two instances - both tangible and intangible; and discusses the possible use of articulated collaborations between legal instruments – tipping and register – from the analysis of the process of national register of the Lace Singeleza, associated the actions of preservation carried through by the Monumenta Program in the city of the Penedo, overthrown for the Iphan in 1996. The theoretical framework focuses on anthropological conception of culture holds a discussion about the construction of the concept of preservation, from the critical analysis process supported by current indicator parameters of the laws and how they fit together. Points to the recognition of the heritage value assigned to environments consisting on nature and constructions materials to be understood as places where they develop strong cultural process. The work points to a praxis of politics preservation of cultural heritage paying attention to the possible use of complementary protection mechanisms as they exist, still today with dissociated application.