ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the constitution of a historiographical approach on cultural heritage in Brazil, based on two works considered as references for the study of the theme, published in the 1980s: Producing the past, organized by Antonio Augusto Arantes (1984)ARANTES, Antonio Augusto (org.). Produzindo o passado. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1984. and Protection and revitalization of cultural heritage in Brazil: a trajectory (1980), launched by SPHAN / Pró-Memória. Emphasizing both the context in which these publications were launched, as well as the internal characteristics that made them representative of a new approach to cultural heritage, it highlights, in addition to the new themes proposed by these works, new approaches, which in turn translated new looks at the nation's culture, memory and materialized past. Such approaches organized a new patrimonial discourse, associated with notions as a cultural asset, and at the same time demarcated the conditions for the possibility of writing the history of heritage in Brazil.
KEYWORDS:
Cultural Heritage; Historiography; Writing History