A arte de fazer como patrimônio imaterial

Abstract

ABSTRACT:In recent decades, the reinvigoration of interest in the past implies discursive investment in memory, the depositary of the desire of retention of historical experience, emptied of meaning in face of the vertiginous obsolescence that characterizes contemporary society. However, since the ‘official memory’, seated in the dilemma between the memory and repression, has a exclusivist character, disjunctive memories, such as popular manifestations, become politically significant, once they are able to present counter-hegemonic forms of identity articulation. In this vein, this paper conceives immateriality as a necessary extension of the concept of heritage as it democratizes the participation of different social strata in culture organization. This paper carries out a study about the intangible heritage, focusing on one of the expressions of immaterial culture peculiar to Médio Piracicaba, Minas Gerais: the art of preparing the guava-smudge, a popular candy in this micro-region, particularly in Barão de Cocais.This candy’s preparation is a kind of social mortar, as it sediments belonging linkages through the intergenerational transmission of culinary knowledge and social events that invigorate the bond between citizens. Keywords:Intangible heritage. Cultural memory. Culinary