Safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage in the Brazilian federalism: impacts of national and international legislations on the subnational entities

Abstract

Salvaguardia del patrimonio culturale immateriale nel federalismo Brasiliano: impatti delle legislazioni nazionali e internazionali sugli enti subnazionali - This study analyzes the effects on Brazilian federal legislation (Decree 3551/2000) resulting from the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and the Paris Recommendation (1989) and, consequently, on subnational entities in the Northeast region of Brazil, the one with the largest number of goods listed. It should be noted that the safeguard of the PCI in Brazil has the additional challenge of cooperative federalism, which is to correctly and effectively execute the concurrent and common competences attributed to the entities of the federation. In order to achieve the stated objective, the following are preliminarily studied: conceptual aspects, the Brazilian federative structure and the legislation on the subject.