O registro do patrimônio cultural imaterial: considerações sobre o processo de materialização do intangível nas festas religiosas

Abstract

Two celebrations in honor of the Rosary, one in São Sebastião do Paraíso, the other in Ibiraci. Both of them in the environs of the Furnas Lake; south-southwest region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I had the pleasure to follow then in loco and participate in the elaboration of their registry. I was hired by a firm specialized in providing services related to the adequacy of the municipalities of Minas Gerais to the state policy of encouraging and conservation of the cultural assets, so they can meet the requirements to receive the transfers of ICMS (merchandises and services circulation tax) for the culture. Monitoring these celebrations, I intend track religious and epistemic claims, born of the confluence of research practice according to the academic canon and this public policy.