O que não salvaguarda, o racismo leva: a pertença das comunidades de terreiro nos processos de tombamento do IPHAN

Abstract

The protection actions of the communities, within the scope of public policies of cultural heritage, started in the eighties, through the resistance of communities and organized civil society groups, in defense of the memory and cultural heritage of the diaspora African people in Brazil. To understand how to the Institute of Historic and Artistic (IPHAN) preservation processes occurred in communities, from the existing narratives in the institution, we investigate these processes, their technical and bureaucratic procedures, correlating them to social resistance by the recognition of the African heritage in Brazil, memory and belonging of the black people, in defense of cultural diversity, of anti-racist resistance, democracy and secularism. The IPHAN, in eighty years, listed eleven traditional communities from the sacred places of African matrix in national territory. All listed communities are located in the Northeast region of the country, one in the state of Maranhão, nine in the state of Bahia, and one in the state of Pernambuco. This work, therefore, aims to contribute to the construction of the area of cultural heritage as integrated, in conservation and safeguard actions, formed by the tangible and intangible, as a citizen tool in the defense of fundamental rights for human lifes