Full Description
This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses. Following the first volume on Latin American Heritage as published in this book series in 2019, this new volume focuses on music, dance and railway heritage, considering artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects. It is divided into four thematic sections - 1) parties and cultural heritage, 2) railway heritage and museums, 3) archaeological heritage and tourism, and 4) cultural landscape and tourism - and presents chapters on a diverse range of topics, from samba and cultural identities in Rio de Janeiro and London to the "musealization" of railway assets, the history of Antarctic archaeology, the value of scenic landscapes and urban memory in Spain, and the cultural landscape of Brazil.
This unique book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, pursuing global and specific approaches, and combining different views, perceptions and senses, including video fragments.
Contents
Introduction.- Part I: Parties and Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 1. Atlantic Dialogues and Intangible Heritage: the celebration, the samba and the construction of a Brazilian community in London.- Chapter 2. Importing the spirit of Samba. Reflections on intangible heritage and the reproduction of the cultural expression of Samba outside of Brazil.- Chapter 3. Samba Schools in the Southern Border of Brazil: circuits and trans-local exchanges in Carnival cultures.- Chapter 4. Igor Sorriso: a narrative about life experiences and developing a career through the Brazilian Carnival.- Chapter 5. Fado, samba and the interface between national identity, cultural heritage and tourism on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean.- Chapter 6. Religious celebrations and its safeguard public policies in Brazil: some directions.- Part II: Railway Heritage and Museums.- Chapter 7. Mankind and the cost of its becoming: development as a promoter of the heritage conservation (1960-1972).- Chapter 8. Sorocabana Station in Bauru: diagnosis for restoration.- Chapter 9. Guidelines for the musealization of railway assets in open air.- Chapter 10. Troops and "Tropeiros" in Southern Brazil: History, Memory and Heritage.- Part III: Archaeological Heritage and Tourism.- Chapter 11. "Invisible heritages": new technologies and the history of the Antarctic focus groups.- Chapter 12. Illicit trafficking in cultural goods: a genealogy of the concept and actions in contemporary Brazil.- Chapter 13. Heritage, spirituality and tourism: a Brazilian case study.- Part IV: Cultural Landscape and Tourism.- Chapter 14. Landscape and urban memory: some patrimonial discussions in Triana (Seville, Spain).- Chapter 15. Perception of the Cultural Landscape in Historical Centers.
