As influências das Cartas Patrimoniais sobre a legislação brasileira de salvaguarda do patrimônio histórico-cultural (1962-1988)

Abstract

The understanding cultural heritage allows the development of safeguarding historical assets by formulating preservationist and socioeconomic strategies, througt the elaboration of public policies. Paper for Course Conclusion (PCC) proposes to problematize the set of international guidelines, through Heritage Charters in national legislation and their impact on the protection of Brazilian cultural heritage. We take as a historical cut the period between the Paris Recommendation of 1962, and the promulgation of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. As a methodology, we carry out bibliographic research using the concepts of cultural heritage developed by François Hartog (2006), the relationship between culture and memory proposed by Joël Candau (2011), and social representation by Sandra Pesavento (2013). We observe the recurring terms of the international guidelines, which are: the definition and discussion of the cultural asset, the debate on the urbanistic, and the list of public policies for the preservation of the national cultural heritage through the definition of World Heritage. The set of data accessed was ordered chronologically, and the information was cross-checked, resulting in the confirmation of the Heritage Charters’s influence in the creation of measures to safeguard the heritage in the country.