ETHNOLOGY HERITAGE AND IDENTITY IN SPAIN: A comparative study through legislation

Authors

  • Beatriz Santamarina Campos Universitat de València (España)
  • Gil-Manuel Hernández i Marti Universitat de València (España)
  • Albert Moncusí Ferré Universitat de València (España)

Abstract

This article sets out to analyse how Spanish law constructs cultural heritage and ethnological heritage by extending the concept of heritage and by creating a tie to a given reference
collective. For our purposes, we will analyse the discourses of the Heritage laws of the different autonomous regions, as well as taking into account Spain’s Historical Heritage Law of 1985.
The analysis carried out will allow us to observe, in the case of Spain, the diverse nature and the diffuseness of the concept of ethnological heritage, and the relevance of the Heritage laws of the autonomous regions to the sustaining of regionalism and nationalism within the Spanish State, with their attendant and characteristic overlaps and lack of definition. In general, we will provide examples of how the historical extension of the semantic field of the concept of
cultural heritage has led to a certain overlap of, and even a lack of differentiation between, the content of cultural heritage and the concept of culture.

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Published

2014-11-16

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How to Cite

Santamarina Campos, B., Hernández i Marti, G.-M., & Moncusí Ferré, A. (2014). ETHNOLOGY HERITAGE AND IDENTITY IN SPAIN: A comparative study through legislation. Antropología Experimental, 8. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/2006