Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2018)

DEIXA A GIRA GIRAR: proteção e preservação do patrimônio cultural das religiões afro-brasileiras

  • Maria Ines Caetano Ferreira,
  • Walkyria Chagas da Silva Santos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 1
pp. 63 – 86

Abstract

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This article analyses the process of the institute of the “tombamento” (legal protection to the cultural of inheritance) of Terreiro Casa Branca. This work investigates elements of the struggle to bring the legal protection of the Afro Brazilian cultural inheritance onto the federal government agenda. It was adop- ted the methodology of the analyses of the agenda setting, as multiple stre- ams and the punctuated equilibrium. The technical used was the analyses of the administrative and historical documents. Findings show political disputes that became possible the emancipation and valorization of the Afro-Brazilian religions, despite the hierarchical and authoritarian elements of the Brazilian society. Although, democratic conceptions were triumphed, it is remained thre- ats for the implementation and keeping the achievements of the black social movements and activists of Afro-Brazilian culture.

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