Abstract

CANDAU, Joël  and  FERREIRA, Maria Leticia Mazzucchi. Memory and cultural heritage: narratives and patrimonial affordances. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2015, n.58, pp.21-36. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.43469.

This article does not aim to address the modern criteria involved in the decision to declare a cultural object as official cultural patrimony, because those criteria are multiple and varied. This article proposes to highlight the criteria of eligibility, which is not documented clearly in our point of view, or is merely held to be implicit, in the existing academic discourse on cultural patrimony. This article proposes the concept of affordance of cultural heritage and defends the stance that, supposing that all cultural expressions can be potentially declared as cultural patrimony, the probability that a cultural expression be considered as such depends on its element of affordance. Paraphrasing the famous quote, however cynical, regarding equality - all men are created equal, but some are more equal than others! - we can state that all expressions of cultural heritage from the past, recent or distant, are equal in this process of cultural heritage, but some are more than others because of their degree of affordance.

Keywords : memory; uses of the past; cultural heritage; affordance.

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