Inventários participativos : uma possibilidade de mobilização social

Abstract

This work, the result of the reflection about the production of participatory cultural inventories in Patrimonial Education actions, analyses the scope and limits of the inventories in the policies of cultural preservation, from five experiences of participatory actions, as follows: Do Buraco ao Mundo (From the Hole to the World); Registro do Ofício e Território do Alto do Moura (Registration of the Office and Territory of Alto do Moura); Inventários do Vale do Mamanguape (Inventories of the Vale do Mamanguape); Pamin (Programa Patrimônio e Interatividade – Heritage and Interactivity Program). In 2016, the IPHAN (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute) launched the Manual de Aplicação do Inventário Participativo (Manual for the Application of Participatory Inventory). This free access and readable didactic material has become a safeguard instrument for cultural heritage. It aims at the social mobilization by sensitizing the culture holders to their local cultural references. It is an awakening to the importance of the cultural patrimony that in some cases is so naturalized in their communities that it becomes invisible in the social context in which it is produced. From the initial reflection about the scope and limits of the methodologies of inventories in the policies of cultural preservation, we can draw some conclusions from what has been revealed in these five experiences of participatory actions, considering that both inventory and participation are exercises of power, in which the action of the inventory represents a power that comes from above. This happens because there is an incentive and interest for these actions to happen, through culture preservation policies. The participatory action however represents a power that comes from below – the forgotten and unattended segments of the public policy landscape – causing a tension between the actors involved in this process.