Legislation of local cultural heritage in Brazil: reflections based on the Municipal Basic Information Survey (Munic)

Abstract

From the legislative responsibility and cultural heritage protection inferred to the entities that make up the public power by the Federal Constitution of 1988, this work aims to contribute to the reflection on the regulatory field of municipal cultural heritage in Brazil, a topic that has been little studied in the country. Allows a reading of the role of municipalities in the management and preservation of cultural heritage, from a conjunctural analysis, based on the work of researchers on culture and cultural heritage policies, and the data provided in the Basic Information Survey Municipal (Munic), carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2018. Although this article deals with local heritage, it proposes to present an overview of the process of planning and implementing policies assets at the national level and demonstrates its impact, sometimes positive and sometimes negative, on the municipalities. Finally, the analysis shows that both legislation and heritage policy have undergone profound changes over the years that, in a pendular movement, punctuated failures and setbacks; that there was and there is a great disparity between the municipalities and how much they still need to do.