Cultural environment: Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Amazonas and Popular Participation

Abstract

This article presents a critical approach on the legal instruments for the protection of Brazilian cultural heritage, intangible assets in Amazonas. It develops considerations about the importance of popular participation and awareness as a direct participant in this process of safeguarding the intangible assets (beliefs, identity, memory, forms of manifestation and culture of a people) for present and future generations. This theoretical discussion goes through the brief analysis of the normativity, of the actors involved in this process, of the effective search to ensure that intangible assets are perpetuated.

Corridors Construction and Development Strategies for Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study about the Yangtze River Economic Belt

“…Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to the various social practices, concepts, forms of expressions, knowledge, skills and related tools, objects, handicrafts, and cultural sites that are considered by communities, groups, and sometimes individuals to be an integral part of their cultural heritage, according to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage issued by UNESCO in 2003 [1]. Research on ICH has made considerable progress, mainly focusing on the legal protection of ICH [2,3], cultural connotation exploration [4], intellectual property protection of ICH [5][6][7], digital protection [8][9][10][11], tourism development [12][13][14][15][16][17], etc. At present, the research on ICH focuses on the protection and development of theoretical aspects but ignores the discussion of its sensitivity to the impact of nature and the social environment [18,19].…”