Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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Presentación - El patrimonio cultural. Estudios contemporáneos hot!
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Ana Rosas Mantecón - a conceptualización del patrimonio cultural, generalmente entendido como las expresiones culturales de un pueblo que se consideran dignas de ser conservadas, ha recorrido un largo camino. Desde sus orígenes, en el siglo XVIII, la noción estuvo estrechamente vinculada a la del acervo de obras apreciadas como valiosas (Giménez, 1982: 5) y legítimas, respaldadas por su prestigio histórico y simbólico. En América Latina, la concepción del patrimonio como acervo ha prevalecido sobre todo en las disciplinas directamente responsables de su cuidado —arqueología, arquitectura, restauración—. Esta manera de conceptuar el patrimonio es, en mayor o menor medida, estática: asume que la definición y apreciación de los bienes culturales está al margen de conflictos de clases y grupos sociales. Decimos en mayor o menor medida porque hay grupos que, aun enarbolando la concepción del patrimonio como acervo, reconocen una cierta gama de conflictos respecto de los posibles usos del patrimonio y buscan defenderlo de la voracidad privada u oficial que lo afecta, en aras del aprovechamiento de su prestigio simbólico. A la luz de esta conceptuación, la legitimidad del patrimonio ha aparecido como incuestionable y su carácter de herencia excepcional ha llevado a los investigadores a desconsiderar el análisis de su relación con los diferentes sectores de una sociedad dada. Esta relación no podría ser otra que la de la admiración y el cuidado que, en caso de no darse, generalmente se explica por la desatención y la ignorancia.
Sacralizar el espacio urbano: el centro de las ciudades mexicanas como patrimonio mundial...hot!
DEIFICATING URBAN SPACE. MEXICAN CITY DOWNTOWNS AS A NONRENEWABLE WORLD LEGACY.
An international agreement, signed in 1972, intends to establish a list of the world legacy. Its purpose lies on determining, based on a universal consensus, that which should be preserved. Seven historical centers of Mexican cities have been included in the legacy list. This article analyses the impact of this international process regarding federal and local practices of legacy protection, it also studies the positioning, in regards to this international process, of the different participants who live in the historical centers and take part in their future or have an opinion of it.
Percepciones de la cultura en la posmodernidadhot!
PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURE IN POSMODERNITY.
The transformation of conditions within the postmodern and global field, lead into changes in the way of perceiving as well as a new understandingof the notion of culture and cultural legacy. Some changes refer to the state-nation crisis; the contrasting enlargement and diversification of the notion of culture and its relativisation as well as its nature, when becoming an incomprehensible subject -stream of communication or simbolic element. A reinforcement of the cultural appropriation in the local and world field is also verified, regarding accelerated deterioration, the drawing out of context, originality loss and goods commercialisation.
"A Madonna... yo lo hago un monumento". Los múltiples y diversos usos de la historia en la ciudad...hot!
“TO MADONNA...I BUILD A MONUMENT”. MULTIPLE AND DIVERSE USES OF HISTORY IN MEXICO CITY.
Heritage, related to its use or appropriation by people, comes again to the scene as a no delay problem related to the deep transformations taking place at present in big cities. It is al old issue eventhough renewed for a new context. The expansion of the meaning of concepts as heritage, historical center and history have had influence on the ways things were focused up to now, permitting a switch from the traditional stages of exhibit and enlarging what could be legitimated as heritage. A new dimension of heritage is being introduced from the local stances, eventhough in correspondence with the way in which social actors appropriate of the universal/global categories. So, the production process of heritage is not any more only a question related to the State, instead it has turned into a strategic and very instrumental question for the neighbors of several parts of the city. In the case of Mexico City these issues have begun to grow in relevance. That’s why this paper intends to analyze these new conceptions, uses and appropriation of heritage and history, comparing the historical center of Tlalpan and the modern Polanco Colony in Mexico City.