Heritage Kinaesthetics

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Heritage Kinaesthetics
Nadezhda Savova, Anthropology,
Princeton University
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Heritage Kinaesthetics Local constructivism of
cultural centres in a Brazilian favela The
story and dreams of the favela of Providencia,
Rio de Janeiro
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Heritage Kinaesthetics

• The moving bodily practices - from walking to
  re-creation of local intangible heritage - that
  people imagine and enact to enliven the built
  environments static aesthetic looks, or the
  immobile quality of place usually ascribed to
  historic sites/tangible heritage. Heritage
  kinaesthetics describes the socialization of
  tangible heritage through regular community
  practices.

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Types of Heritage Kinaesthetics

• visual (photographing seeing - looking public
  art)
• ambulatory (walking around as exploration)
• performative (enacting intangible cultural
  heritage tour guides performances)
• oral (telling stories/imagining history)
• acoustic (creating place-specific sounds)

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We dream of a community cultural center the
center starts in peoples heads! After all, it
can be the tiniest room but when we take care of
it together it is ours. It is just a matter of
people embracing the idea and the Providencia
Museum should have spurred that much more than it
did! Eron Local Capoeira and After-school aid
Teacher Church Care-taker
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They the Municipality wanted to clean the
place for tourists but what they did is step on
pisar our culture, idealize our
community! Orfeo Community Artisan, Former
Prisoner
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People take off their shoes when they are tired
of the worldwhen you need to break free and the
first thing that you can take off from that
burden are the shoes pressing your feet tight
you need to break the rules.. you need to walk
barefoot and feel the earth on your skin
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• Freedom is neither deaf, nor paralyzed. She
  lives, talks, claps her hands, she laughs, she
  shouts, she lives because of life ...
• (Machado do Assis, 1892)

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