Knowing, transmitting, living together, recognizing and valuing: new categories for the understanding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Plaza de Mercado de Las Flores, Bogota

ICH analyzes the different cultural expressions based on the guidelines given by UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture in an academic and governmental exercise that seeks to classify, assess and make visible what is considered representative for the nation. To achieve this, thirteen fields were defined in which the different manifestations are registered. However, most of these fields are distant from the cultural processes that are woven in the city. Based on this statement, the study of the market place is considered from a historical perspective that allows recognizing its transformations and permanence, to move on to an ethnographic analysis of the Plaza de Mercado de las Flores, located in the Kennedy neighborhood in Bogota, from which new categories of analysis emerge: knowing, transmitting, coexisting, recognizing, and valuing, which allow the market to be interpreted as a complex cultural framework.