O Lugar do patrimônio cultural contemporâneo: conceito e realidade a partir de uma visão amazônica

Abstract

This article intends to discuss about the cultural heritage and their Place, as symbolic and physic aspects, and the “invisibility” of their elements, through two ethnography exercises: in a rural site in Bujaru/PA town and an urban situation in Belém (capital of the state of Pará-Brazil). Both of them have relevant material elements to preserve: in the rural community (Santana do Bujaru) has a bicentennial church and, in the city of Belém, more than a hundred of sculptural objects situated in public spaces. The analysis intends to characterize the cultural heritage “locus” as Memory Place or Sites of Memory (Pierre Nora) and Non-Places (Marc Augé), intending to understand how these concepts are important to comprehend the cultural heritage in the contemporary society and what elements made the invisibility a symptom of Modernism.