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30
November
1937

Heritage law creates a state framework that marginalized living Black culture

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📅 30 November 1937 📍 Brazilië

Decree-Law 25 established federal heritage listing (tombamento), defining national heritage through historical, archaeological, ethnographic, bibliographic, and artistic value. In practice, early preservation prioritized monumental architecture and elite national symbols. Afro-Brazilian religious communities later contested this hierarchy by pressing for the protection of terreiros as living sacred places, not merely architectural objects. The legal tool could protect threatened sites, but also translated community authority and sacred landscapes into state categories.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Getúlio Vargas

Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade

Organisaties in dit Evenement

IPHAN

Brazilian federal government