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The allegory of the Brazilian cultural landscape

ABSTRACT

This text discusses protection of Brazil’s cultural landscape. Issues include intentions to regulate heritage preservation tool and conceptual implications of cultural landscape as cultural heritage. Recent turning points in Brazil are the suspension of the national cultural landscape instrument in 2014, and Unesco’s recognition, between 2012 and 2021, of four cultural landscapes in Brazil, despite the fact that this was still under discussion by Brazil’s national agency for heritage preservation. The text proposes a critical analysis of Brazil’s cultural landscape instrument in the field of cultural heritage, taking into account the roots of Brazilian culture formation, which includes the role of nation building and heritage preservation policies. The critique links Brazil’s cultural landscape to that which emerges from the struggle and resistance of the Brazilian people, therefore, to a mestizo landscape, which needs to be assimilated in an inclusive perspective of all subjects.

KEYWORDS:
Landscape; Cultural Landscape; Cultural heritage; Iphan

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