ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some possible axes or coordinates of analysis as well as methodological approaches for examining heritagization processes of indigenous cultural manifestations. It discusses the heritage of indigenous sectors that have been construed as others and subalterns and which deserve a place for deeper exploration. The chapter addresses a perspective that, achieves a contemplation of the aforementioned analytic axes in their full complexity and dynamism. It offers a selection of situations drawn from author's own research and from the work of other colleagues dealing with 'geographies of imagination and management' that, functioning as a state of affairs. The chapter refers to the importance of problematizing the instance of enunciation and shaping of authority and power within any heritage activation. Trouillot analyzes the silences in the production of official historical narratives and shows how silencing operates on the level of content by resorting to 'formulas of erasure'.
