CULTURA, PATRIMONIALIZAÇÃO E DESIGUALDADE NO BRASIL E NA ÁFRICA AUSTRAL

This research focuses on the Bumba-meu-boi of Maranhão, the Zulu Dance of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa and Timbila of Inhambane, Mozambique, and the social and cultural universe in which these repertories and cultural modalities are inserted. It emphasizes the connections between patrimony and education, patrimony and citizenship, state and culture. Theoretically and epistemologi- cally, part of the recognition of something commonly forgotten: the fact that Africa and African studies have profoundly influenced the thinking of the main intellectuals and the theoretical formulations on which the contemporary social and human sciences operate. Thus, starting from a bibliographical and docu- mentary research, the work is structured in the interface between the African studies, the epistemologies of the south and perspectives of the social analysis that emphasize, in the study of the culture, the questions referring to the so- cial change, conflicts, contradictions and inequalities. The deepening of stu- dies about cultural repertoires and products, in a comparative and cross-South- -South perspective, could contribute significantly to the understanding of the relations between State, Culture and Public Policies