ABSTRACT
Since the turn of century, with globalization and the weight of the market, new centralities are becoming configurations, and the unique paradigm of the patrimonial field is shifting, hence opening new venues. This chapter argues that heritage is an area of social conflict where patrimonial subjects engage in an explicit force correlation. The analysis of historical centralities’ evolution in Latin America puts into question the patrimonial theoretical and methodological framework, both monumental based (reified groups of monuments) and conservation based (the end of history), which we term “heritage fetishism”. In such a context, productive inheritance is at the core of public institutionalization aimed at producing history value, democratizing heritage and improving its articulation with the city. This chapter focuses on foundational historical centrality, which was initially created on elitist and political grounds, then created popular slums and eventually turned into aporofication 1 (expulsion of the popular, pauperism) mainly through boutification (tourism).
