IPHAN 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 whose histories include enslavement, plantation labor, and post-emancipation migration. Practitioners transmitted knowledge across generations even as racism and urban displacement threatened gathering places. State recognition acknowledged this continuity, while making community participation in safeguarding central to whether heritage status would strengthen or merely document the practice.
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What was recognized when Jongo entered the heritage register in 2005?
Jongo is a living Afro-Brazilian community tradition using drums, song, and dance.
Jongo recognition acknowledged no community transmission or practice.
IPHAN’s registration concerns a living community practice transmitted across generations.