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Historical and Cultural Patrimony in Brazil: Recent Work in Portuguese

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

John F. Collins
John F. Collins*
Affiliation:
Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , 2009 , pp. 291 - 301
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Copyright © 2009 by the Latin American Studies Association

References

1. Teresa Caldeira and James Holston, “State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions,” in Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, ed. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Malden, MA: Blackwell), 354–372.

2. In referring to patrimony as a performative, I follow Gonçalves, as well as important currents in contemporary anthropology, so as to recognize that patrimony does not so much transmit specific content as make claims about a world in ways that alter that world. In other words, patrimony, like the phrase “I now pronounce you man and wife,” makes things happen not simply because of its content, but because of the power and authority invested in it as a state-sponsored ritual act that is supposedly based on the expertise of the professionals charged with its development and supervision.