01204nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002900043653003100072100002000103245004900123856009100172490000700263520078800270                                       d10aInventorying (ICH\_1342)10aPolicy making (THE\_16107)1 aCarlos Sandroni00aSamba de roda, supernal heritage of humanity  uhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0103-40142010000200023&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en0 v243 aIn 2005, samba de roda, a music-dance form from the Recôncavo region of Bahia, Brazil, was included in UNESCO s Third Proclamation of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. This award was the result of a twenty month-long journey in which public policy makers, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and, especially, samba practitioners from the Recôncavo were brought together. This included the writing of a Plan of Action, scheduled to span five years, to safeguard samba de roda. In this paper, after a brief introduction about the process leading to UNESCO s award, I will address several questions raised by the implementation of the Plan, which was built around four main themes: the organization of the sambadores; the transmission; diffusion and documentation of samba de roda.