Apropiación patrimonial en contextos mineros de Andalucía

Abstract

Lots of decades, efforts, passion and resources have been dedicated to determine what is Heritage. Reaching a consensus on its public value, steps have been implemented in order to administrate, conserve, share, promote, difusse it... Maybe the time has come to change the analytic axis: pay attention to the subjects which establish themselves around this Heritage from multiple positions and in different moments. There emerges our interest about the effects, about what Heritage does. Looking for answers to that question, we have began an etnographic analysis in five mining zones of Andalusia, focusing as a priority on the heritagization process and heritage appropriation. We have taken as theoretical and methodological tools the notions of intervention and consumption. The result is an approach to what Heritage actually does, trying to consider at the same time the effects in, from and over market, state and civil society; but over all that reveals the strict personal dimension, which links subjects and objects of Heritage.