The immateriality and normativity of intangible cultural heritage

The objective of this article is to analyze the social production of intangible cultural heritage as a field that is crossed by normative logics. In this sense, it seeks to address the intangible cultural heritage as a field (in the terms of Bourdieu) and analyze it in light of the contributions of anthropology in order to carry out a reading that makes visible the omnipresent heterogeneity of practices, ideas legal, definitions, behaviors and standards. To this end, some of the current regulations - international and national-will be recovered to understand the set of disputes that reinforce or limit the validity of the same in each context, as well as its multiple interpretations