Seeing, touching and preserving: the notion of patrimony from their tangibility

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the matter of material and immaterial heritage, and cultural assets from the perspective of the tangible and intangible which implies different perceptions of it and also, varying degrees of responsibility for them. In this sense, what is sought with this paper is to discuss how people and the state in general relate to the issue of cultural heritage according to different references and from the degree of presence that this has on everyday life. Likewise, it is argued that the greater the degree of presence of certain "good", being it cultural, historical etc. in the social imaginary and in people's lives, the greater its tangibility and therefore the greater the incidence perceptive so it will get treated differently both by people who consider it as a place of memory as the state which will raise a different status from their legal recognition and, where applicable, their official declaration as heritage. Therefore discussing this "process of being seen" and how certain places and / or customs assume a superior status than others is the goal of this text.