02236nas a2200301   4500000000100000008004100001653006800042653006000110653003400170653002900204653004800233653001800281653001700299653001100316653003400327653004400361653002700405653002900432653001700461653001600478100002000494245011300514856015300627300002400780490000700804520110300811022002001914                                       d10aConvention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage10aConvenção para a Salvaguarda do patrimônio imaterial10acultural heritage dispositifs10aintellectual ethnography10aJustice and Strong Institutions (ICH\_1394)10aSDG 16: Peace10aSafeguarding10aUNESCO10acultural heritage dispositifs10adispositivos de normativas patrimoniais10aetnografia intelectual10aintellectual ethnography10aSafeguarding10asalvaguarda1 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)