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- Title
Ciudad de Goiás (Brasil): entre la memoria de la pérdida y la construcción de un patrimonio.
- Authors
Tamaso, Izabela
- Abstract
The town of Goiás, founded in 1726, was the political center of the province of Goiás, Brazil, up to 1937, when the authoritarian government of the New State decided that another city should be built to be the province's capital city. The new capital Goiania was founded and the town of Goiás lost its status as capital city of the province. The material and symbolic violence in the change caused several consequences which are still felt and narrated by the inhabitants called "Vilaboenses". Henceforth, the local cultural elite prepared the future of the town through cultural, traditional and heritage categories. The loss of political centrality inserted its inhabitants within the process of the invention of local differentiators and regional identities. At the same time, the historical downtown was acknowledged as a national heritage by the Brazilian Institute of Historical and National Heritage (IPHAN). Culture and tradition and aesthetic values generated by heritage experts warranted great efficiency in the construction of a heritage capital that made the town obtain the title of world heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2001. Current essay investigates (1) the indissoluble relationship between the memory of the trauma of the transition of the capital and the narratives that underscore the process of heritage-building of the city's historical downtown; (2) the process by which identity and heritage united within the aesthetic context of urban landscape, the objectification of the Goiás culture and the constitution of places of memory, with special reference to the conflict and excluding characteristics that underlie the Heritage process.
- Subjects
GOIAS (Brazil); CULTURAL property -- Social aspects; WORLD Heritage Sites; PRESERVATION of historic districts; LIEUX de memoire (History); NATIONALISM &; collective memory; ORAL history; HISTORY
- Publication
Dialogos (14159945), 2014, Vol 18, Issue 3, p1083
- ISSN
1415-9945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/dialogos.v18i3.1015