Intercultural heritage: new modalities of cultural appropriation

Abstract

When addressing the problems that result from the interaction of social groups that benefit from the cultural heritage in the historical sites of cities that are dedicated to tourism, there is a tendency towards generalization, as if the transformations of social phenomena on the territory were linear. In fact, the possibilities of conflict in terms of urban heritage and its actors are very diverse and acquire various nuances that could be explained based on concepts from social anthropology to identify violent cultural transitions in the intercultural processes generated by tourism, as it occurs in other forms of contact. The results indicate that there is a transformation without return of the meanings and appropriation of heritage spaces, a result of acculturation and syncretism.