Patrimônio cultural, interesse local e proteção legal

Abstract

The contemporary time, one of many dynamic changes, of conceptual, methodological and epistemology reviews and re-studies not only change the solidity of paradigms but also make emerge new subjects of concrete rights and new subjects of theoretical approaches. Culture, along with its many meanings, and the Cultural Estate expressing the process dynamics of historical identities of subjects and communities, are themselves in this dialectics of the contemporary. Through this paper: Cultural Estate, Local Interest and Legal Protection, it is intended to dialogue with approaches, principles and concepts of Culture and Cultural Estate, aiming to understand its historical and contemporary most appropriate meanings for the transforming understanding which they bring about and make possible. From this process understanding of Culture and Cultural Estate, it is aimed to establish an essential relation between the constitution legislation that defines the City as a federal entity which is competent to legislate about the Local Interest and this competence is inherent to it. Once this competence is established, it is attempted to locate this Local Interest as a cultural (local) interest once there must be physical and territorial spaces and human beings for these interests to happen, making people s lives and their communities more dynamic. Over these cultural, historical and physical spaces, the indicatives of Cultural Estate have responsibility. Finally, established the mutual inter- and intra- correlation among the meanings of Culture, Cultural Estate, a set of legal and administrative instruments that might help promote and protect the Culture Estate suitably and effectively are explored.