02184nas a2200265   4500008004100000022002000041245011300061210006900174300002000243490000700263520110300270653006001373653006801433653003401501653004401535653002701579653002901606653004701635653001701682653001601699653001801715653001101733100002101744856015301765       2019                        eng d  a18094341 (ISSN)00aSafeguarding. A key dispositif of UNESCO’s convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage0 aSafeguarding A key dispositif of UNESCO s convention for the saf  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.10aConvenção para a Salvaguarda do patrimônio imaterial10aConvention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage10aCultural heritage dispositifs10adispositivos de normativas patrimoniais10aetnografia intelectual10aIntellectual ethnography10aJustice and Strong Institutions (ICH_1394)10aSafeguarding10asalvaguarda10aSDG 16: Peace10aUNESCO1 aArantes, Antonio  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072726756&doi=10.1590%2f1809-43412019v16a201&partnerID=40&md5=b98bcfc0a30dddcb86aa16919a5c9bf0