Cordel literature as cultural heritage

ABSTRACT

Forwarded to Iphan in 2010 by the Brazilian Cordel Academy (ABCL), the request for registration of cordel literature as intangible cultural heritage involved a long process of research. The cordel was treated as a form of expression and a system manifested by the productive action, in the capacity to generate effects. The rapporteur’s vote, after basic information about the nature and transformations of the good, focused on its aesthetic, historical, communitarian and identity dimensions, as well as its extraordinary persistence, as a “converter of worlds”. Safeguard proposals have been included.

KEYWORDS: Cordel literature; registration request; intangible cultural heritage