Brazil ratified the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ratification committed the state to identify and safeguard living cultural practices in cooperation with communities. For Afro-Brazilian traditions, the convention offered an international framework that recognized collective knowledge and transmission, not only monuments. Its language of safeguarding also required attention to who defines a tradition and who benefits from its promotion, since state and tourism projects can detach practices from their communities.
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What did Brazil’s 2006 ratification of UNESCO’s convention mean?
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The convention calls for safeguarding intangible heritage in cooperation with communities.