Culturas, paisagens e patrimônio cultural: reflexões desde o Brasil Central

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the conceptions of landscapes and heritage specifically focusing on its cultural base. Cultural landscapes are interpreted in the context of their complexity involving subjectivity and objectivity. The landscape emerges into a natural environmental and cultural resource, whose value then becomes relative. The cultural goods obtain a value that the society, through social practices, can be use to enhance the market. Tourism reinvents cultural heritgae which is analyzed from the perspective of UNESCO, IPHAN and the Brasilian Constitution. It concludes many meanings of the symbolic landscape that primarily talk about the men that created them. The landscape and territory are aspects marked by elements of heritage which are signs of the trajectory of the society that trigger memory and situates groups, defining their identity.