TY - JOUR KW - intangible heritage KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - intangible heritage KW - Memory KW - Memoria KW - Patrimônio imaterial KW - psicologia social KW - social psychology AU - Marli Lopes da Costa AU - Ricardo Vieiralves de Castro AB - This text aims to make some reflections on the award of the title of National Intangible Heritage of knowledge, ways of living and making to a few groups located in different regions of Brazil. The object of discussion are the intangible assets already patrimonializated and considered of national importance for the construction of memory, identity and the formation of Brazilian society. In an effort to contribute to the discussion that advocate patrimonialization of intangible assets not only relates to the registration and preservation of customs, ways of doing and knowing of a group or community, but it means an intervention in a whole set of relationships concrete and immediately lived by those groups and communities. As local knowledge, customs, ways of living and making of the groups, they anchor and are being rebuilt in the spaces to which they belong, in affective relations, in lived experiences and in the memories of the groups that keep them alive. DO - 10.1590/S1413-294X2008000200004 M1 - 2 N2 - This text aims to make some reflections on the award of the title of National Intangible Heritage of knowledge, ways of living and making to a few groups located in different regions of Brazil. The object of discussion are the intangible assets already patrimonializated and considered of national importance for the construction of memory, identity and the formation of Brazilian society. In an effort to contribute to the discussion that advocate patrimonialization of intangible assets not only relates to the registration and preservation of customs, ways of doing and knowing of a group or community, but it means an intervention in a whole set of relationships concrete and immediately lived by those groups and communities. As local knowledge, customs, ways of living and making of the groups, they anchor and are being rebuilt in the spaces to which they belong, in affective relations, in lived experiences and in the memories of the groups that keep them alive. SP - 125 EP - 131 TI - Patrimônio Imaterial Nacional: preservando memórias ou construindo histórias? UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-69049093092&doi=10.1590%2fS1413-294X2008000200004&partnerID=40&md5=99a445671075942f3463f5c56a2cab2c VL - 13 SN - 1413294X (ISSN) ER -