CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL IDENTITY
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Starting from, David Lowenthal's assertion that "heritage interprets the past," patrimony has, over time, been the subject of a double evolution; on the one hand, we can talk about an extension that covers all cultural goods today and on the other hand there is an identification of the actors and institutions that manage this cultural heritage (public institutions, private associations, etc.). The first aspect concerns the progressive extension of the concept of cultural heritage in its various manifestations, this extension being marked by the inclusion of cultural assets in material and immaterial cultural patrimony. However, the change with the greatest implications is the assertion of what constitutes a "cultural heritage" at a given historical moment. Thus, it is necessary to attribute to heritage an authentic value, in this light, this becoming the first representation we could say eloquent to humanity and extrapolating, it can become a genuine social construction of the community that interprets it and preserves it as a living testimony of consciousness its collective and why not common.

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