Abstract
Since the XIXth century the national parks became an important instrument of natural heritage, producing an utopic vision of the man-nature relationship and feelings of symbolic and territorial integration of the national society. This model, however, began to be questioned by culturally diverse ways of material and symbolic uses of nature. Confronting the new socioenvironmental and cultural diversity guidelines in heritage policies, this article describes the forms of resistance and affirmation of the landscape of the so-called "Sertão Carioca" in the face of the modern myth of untouched nature imposed by the creation of the State Park of Pedra Branca, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Keywords:
heritage; national parks; public use; conservation; socioenvironmentalism