The registration of Cordel literature as intangible heritage and the popular culture preservation policies in Brazil
The request for registration of the Cordel Literature as immaterial heritage of Brazil, demanded by Academia Brasileira de Literatura Cordel to Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN) inscribes itself at the final act of the so-called “patrimonial chain”, and, when titled, it...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2018 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repository: | Anos 90 (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/82985 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/82985 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Cordel literature Immaterial heritage Cultural heritage Popular culture Folklore Registration Literatura de Cordel Patrimônio imaterial Cultura popular Folclore Registro identidade memória cultura popular registro. |
| Summary: | The request for registration of the Cordel Literature as immaterial heritage of Brazil, demanded by Academia Brasileira de Literatura Cordel to Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN) inscribes itself at the final act of the so-called “patrimonial chain”, and, when titled, it will be recognized as a living cultural heritage – voice expression, memory and body of its reciters; a Brazilian popular art and symbol of a Brazilian northwestern culture that made the migratory process the joust between the oral and the written in the conquest of the national territory. But, rather, it is the process of constructing the senses of immaterial cultural heritage and the long path to the patrimonialisation of Cordel Literature that this article is about. Considering the nature and trajectory of Cordel Literature, we aim to point out some conceptual and institutional frameworks that allows us to perceive the displacements of meanings that the concept of popular culture gained along the trajectories of public policies of preservation from folklore to immaterial heritage. The experience of the project entitled “Literatura de Cordel” of the Centro de Referência Cultural do Ceará (CERES) – from 1975 to 1979 – in mapping and recording the memory of traditional popular culture in the state of Ceará, Brazil, will be our inflection point. |
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