The dematerialization of cultural patrimony has brought back the necessity of inventories as tools for the recognition of cultural diversity and the starting point for public policies of patrimony. Thus, retracing the trajectory of Mario de Andrade in the constitution of the Inventory of the Senses means searching for the origins of the formulation of a notion of patrimony and of a conception of preservation which puts the inventory in the center of a preservation practice (especially with regards to non-tangible patrimony) legitimizing it as a tool for preservation itself and not only as a managing tool for assets already registered. Signal of the modernist narrative of the construction of a "Brazilianness", it is in its genesis, articulated to the "re-discovery travels to Brazil (1924, 1927, and 1928/1929) and, later on, objectified in the actions of the Culture Bureau of São Paulo (1935-1938).
cultural patrimony; inventory; multimedia; popular culture; collective memory