02249nas a2200313   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001700043653001700060653001100077653006800088653003400156653002900190653001600219653006000235653003400295653004400329653002700373653002900400653004800429653001800477100002000495245011300515856015300628300002400781490000700805520110300812022002001915       2019                            d10aSafeguarding10aSafeguarding10aUNESCO10aConvention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage10aCultural heritage dispositifs10aIntellectual ethnography10asalvaguarda10aConvenção para a Salvaguarda do patrimônio imaterial10acultural heritage dispositifs10adispositivos de normativas patrimoniais10aetnografia intelectual10aintellectual ethnography10aJustice and Strong Institutions (ICH\_1394)10aSDG 16: Peace1 aAntonio Arantes00aSafeguarding. A key dispositif of UNESCO’s convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072726756&doi=10.1590%2f1809-43412019v16a201&partnerID=40&md5=b98bcfc0a30dddcb86aa16919a5c9bf0  ae16201—e162010 v163 aThe expression ‘safeguarding intangible cultural heritage’ was formed within the context of transformations in the instruments and strategies for protecting cultural elements usually designated ‘folklore and traditional (and popular) culture’.1 The adoption of a ‘cultural heritage approach’ to this subject was a somewhat turbulent process that drew, since the mid-twentieth century, a winding path of dialogues with, and divergences from, common sense notions and mainstream preservationist culture. Throughout this process, political and conceptual possibilities for social engineering were envisaged, some were discarded, choices were legitimized and, no less importantly, networks were formed of agents and narrators of the political and legal negotiations that eventually lead to designing UNESCO ICH Convention as officially adopted. This path will be explored in the following comments on the formation of safeguarding as a cultural heritage policy dispositive2 and significant contrasts to other instruments, in relation to which it has acquired specificity, meaning and scope.  a18094341 (ISSN)