Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management.
Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool.
Table of ContentsRodrigo Christofoletti and Marcos Olender
PRESENTATION: World heritage patinas: a metaphor to be understood
Part 1 - Performance of national preservation organization
Jurema Machado
The Brazilian experience of World Heritage Sites
Marcelo Brito
Conservation actors: challenges and risks of safeguarding world heritage towns
Nivaldo Andrade
Challenges and risks on the conservation of the historic center of Salvador, Bahia
Simone Scifoni
World Heritage in Brazil: a reflection and critique
Monica Lima
When sensitive memories sites become heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro
Raul Lanari and Hugo Rocha
Afro-Brazilian religions and protected urban areas: the cases of Laranjeiras and São Cristóvão, Sergipe
Luciana Rocha Féres and Leonardo Barci Castriota
The modern Complex of Pampulha: reflections on the complexities and contradictions for the management of a world cultural landscape
Ana Lúcia Goelzer Meira and Luisa Durán Rocca
Reflections on tourism in Jesuit-Guarani missions
Part 2 - International experiences in preserving the world heritage
Marcos Olender
Some genealogical notes on the notion of world heritage
Maria Leonor Botelho and Lúcia Rosas
The experience of managing the city of Porto as a world heritage site: how to teach and how to learn?
Mario Ferrada
Latin American world heritage sites; conservation and management under a values-based approach
Joanes da Silva Rocha
Immaterial heritage and the risk of forgetting: the case of the hidden Christians in Nagasaki
Paulo Henrique Martinez
Environmental history and cultural landscape in Israel (2003-2018)
Part 3 - World heritage risks and threats
Rodrigo Christofoletti and Vitória Acerbi
Brazil in the circuit of international cultural relations: devolution and return of ethnographic goods
Antônio Maria Claret de Gouveia, Giovana Martins Brito and Ana Elisa de Oliveira
The risk of fire in the semi detached buildings of the historic center of Ouro Preto: world heritage
Denismara Eugênia de Oliveira Nascimento
Plunderers of Devotional Heritage
Kathia Maurtua
From works in favor of tourism to attacks against cultural heritage: a history of corruption and modernity in the case of Cusco
Jeremy Dioses Campaña
Modernity, Huacas and depredation of heritage on the Peruvian coast. the specific case of Chan Chan, 1986-2019 world heritage
Hebe Mattos
Memory of slavery as material and intangible heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf and the project Passados Presentes
Part 4 - Legislation and ethnography in the preservation of world heritage sites
Virgynia Corradi Lopes da Silva and Adriana Sanajotti Nakamuta
Controlling the circulation of movable assets and operating in a network: perspectives for the inspection of cultural heritage
Caroline dos Reis Lodi
Legislation on the protection of cultural goods: a comparative study between Brazil and Italy
Carolina Saporetti
IPHAN looking outwards: international relations in the preservation of national heritage
Élcio Rogério Secomandi
Set of colonial fortifications in Brazil indicated for cultural world heritage
Priscila Enrique Oliveira
Indigenous culture as a heritage of humanity. Safeguarding intangible heritage through the experience of the Mbya Guarani of the indigenous land of Ribeirão Silveira (SP)
Part 5 - World Heritage of Minas Gerais - disputes over power and memories
Adriana Careaga Alonzo
Heritage management, challenges and opportunities: a particular view at the Minas Gerais heritage
Benedito Tadeu de Oliveira
Ouro Preto: World Heritage
Dalila Varela
“After the festivities, the responsibilities”: urban conflicts in Ouro Preto after the nomination as World Heritage
Flávio de Lemos Carsalade
The Pampulha Modern Ensemble and its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Alexandre Costa
Dispute of the social imaginary in the city of the prophets: conflicts, environment and heritage in Congonhas (1985-2019)
Junno Marins da Matta
Diamantina - world heritage and living monument
