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Heritage law creates a state framework that marginalized living Black culture
📅 30 Novèmber 1937Decree-Law 25 established federal heritage listing (tombamento), defining national heritage through historical, archaeological, ethnographic, bibliographic, and artistic value. In practice, early...
IPHAN council approves protection for Terreiro da Casa Branca
📅 31 Mei 1984The heritage council approved federal listing for Ilê Axé Iyá Nassô Oká, known as Terreiro da Casa Branca, in Salvador. The decision followed a divisive debate over whether an Afro-Brazilian sacred...
Brazil creates a register for intangible cultural heritage
📅 4 Ougùstùs 2000Decree 3,551 established federal registers for forms of expression, ways of doing, places, and celebrations considered Brazilian intangible heritage, alongside a national program for safeguarding...
Samba de Roda of Recôncavo enters Brazil’s heritage register
📅 5 Òktober 2004IPHAN registered Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo Baiano in its Book of Forms of Expression. Rooted in Afro-Bahian communities, the practice brings together music, dance, poetry, percussion, and...
Jongo communities gain federal intangible heritage recognition
📅 15 Desèmber 2005IPHAN registered Jongo in the Southeast as intangible cultural heritage. Jongo is a community practice combining drums, dance, song, and call-and-response, sustained by Afro-Brazilian communities...
Tambor de Crioula is registered as Maranhão heritage
📅 18 Yüni 2007IPHAN registered Tambor de Crioula do Maranhão in the Book of Forms of Expression. The tradition brings together drumming, dance, and song, with strong ties to Afro-Maranhense communities and devotion...
Roda de Capoeira is recognized as Brazilian intangible heritage
📅 15 Yüli 2008IPHAN’s heritage council recognized the Roda de Capoeira and entered it in the Book of Forms of Expression. The roda is a collective setting for movement, music, song, instruments, and knowledge,...
Mestres’ craft and teaching become part of national heritage record
📅 15 Yüli 2008At the same council meeting that recognized the roda, IPHAN registered the Ofício dos Mestres de Capoeira, acknowledging the knowledge and teaching carried by mestres. This distinct registration...
UNESCO inscribes Capoeira Circle on its Representative List
📅 26 Novèmber 2014UNESCO inscribed the Capoeira Circle on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The listing described a practice combining fight, dance, music, and ritual, shaped...
Maracatu Nação enters Brazil’s cultural heritage register
📅 3 Desèmber 2014IPHAN’s advisory council approved registration of Maracatu Nação as Brazilian cultural heritage. The Afro-Pernambucan tradition includes processions, percussion, dance, and crowned figures linked to...
Maracatu de Baque Solto is recognized as cultural heritage
📅 4 Desèmber 2014IPHAN registered Maracatu de Baque Solto, also known as rural maracatu, as Brazilian cultural heritage. Rooted in Pernambuco’s Zona da Mata and linked to Afro-descendant rural workers, the form brings...