Black cultural heritage in Brazil:

from “stone and lime” to the immaterial protection of the black anima

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the cultural protection of black goods in Brazil. Therefore, an eminently documentary and bibliographic research is carried out, using a deductive methodology. The main objective of the text is to understand how cultural goods of African origin found it difficult to safeguard in the order prior to the 1988 Constitution and how the insertion of immaterial protection favored innumerable records and inventories. In order to achieve this objective, we used three sections: in the first, we observed the relationship between a constitution of a democratic regime, pluralism and the protection of immaterial goods; in the following, we note the contributions that the 1988 Constitution brought to the debate on safeguarding assets; and, finally, the construction of the protection of black heritage, before and after 1988. The article is original and a complete gap in the field of heritage studies.