The preservation of Iguape as national heritage: new practices and preservation policies

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Flávia Brito do
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Scifoni, Simone
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: PARC (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/parc/article/view/8635027
• topic: Iguape. Iphan. Preservation policies.; Iguape. Iphan. Políticas de patrimônio.

In December 2009, the Advisory Council of Iphan (Institute for National Artistic and Historical Heritage) voted to list the Historic Center of Iguape, in the state of São Paulo, as a heritage site – in a decision that marked an important new direction in the state’s heritage policy. In the first federal-level protection of an urban center in the state, the essential principle of local dialogue, the concept of natural heritage as an integral part of built assets, the fact that the study’s approach was inextricably linked to heritage education, and the understanding of material remains within the context of historical processes and their spatial juxtapositions. These were methodological decisions taken by the authors of the article while technicians of the Institute for National Artistic and Historical Heritage that were based on the changes in cultural heritage as a field of study that took place since the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Focusing on this listing experience, this article aims do present critically the results of a national preservation policy in Brazil.