Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Cultural Heritage: Threats and Challenges for a New Model of Heritage Policy

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Published: Feb 8, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2019.68.57064
Keywords:
cultural heritage, indigenous peoples rights, culture politics, decolonization

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Marta Alicja Kania
Universidad Jaguellónica en Cracovia

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the condition of indigenous peoples’ rights in the context of the protection, safeguarding and management of their cultural heritage, especially those elements which have been recognized as of "outstanding universal values" and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the territory of reference I chose Latin American area – the region of significant and dynamic changes in heritage policy and gradual increase in the recognition of indigenous peoples’ cultural rights. I point out the negative aspects of the political appropriation of the cultural heritage (mostly sites and monuments) and the implications of its designation as a World Heritage for indigenous peoples. Referring to the international documents and analyzing the content of the recommendations and reports adopted in recent years by the UN-system, I also try to identify the positive social initiatives and political practices dedicated to the protection, preservation and management of the indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage.

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Kania, M. A. (2019). Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Cultural Heritage: Threats and Challenges for a New Model of Heritage Policy. Latinoamérica. Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (68), 121–157. https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2019.68.57064
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No. 68: 2019/1
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Author Biography

Marta Alicja Kania, Universidad Jaguellónica en Cracovia

Doctorado en Humanidades (2008), Facultad de Historia, Universidad Jaguellónica, Kraków, Polonia

Maestría en Estudios Culturales (2003): Instituto de los Estudios Étnicos y Diáspora Polaca, Facultad de los Estudios Internacionales y Políticos, Universidad Jaguellónica, Kraków, Polonia

Maestría en Arqueología (2002): Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Historia, Universidad Jaguellónica, Kraków, Polonia

Línea general de investigación:

Antropología,  Historia, Etnopolitica de América Latina; relaciones entre antropología cultural y política, patrimonio cultural en Hispanoamérica – contexto político, social y jurídico; la diversidad religiosa y los procesos del sincretismo en Hispanoamérica: pasado y presente.

Publicaciones

Libros:

  • Karol Derwich, Marta Kania (red.), Los derechos humanos en América Latina. Teoría y práctica / Prawa człowieka w Ameryce Łacińskiej. Teoria i praktyka, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2014.
  • Marta Kania, Machupicchu: miedzy archeologią i polityką, Studia Latynoamerykańskie Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, vol. 13, Editorial Universitas, Kraków 2013. [Machupicchu: entre arqueología y política]
  • Karol Derwich, Marta Kania (red.), Ruchy społeczne i etniczne w Ameryce Łacińskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2011. (Los movimientos sociales y étnicos en América Latina]
  • Marta Kania, Prekolumbijski image Peru. Rola archeologii i dziedzictwa inkaskiego w kształtowaniu peruwiańskiej tożsamości narodowej, Studia Latynoamerykańskie Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, vol. 12, Editorial Universitas, Kraków 2010. [Un imagen Precolombino del Perú. Arqueología y patrimonio incaico en el proceso de la creación de la identidad nacional peruana]
  • Marta Kania, Anna Kaganiec-Kamieńska (red.), Doświadczenie demokracji w Ameryce Łacińskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008. [Experiencias de la democracia en América Latina]

Artículos en las revistas científicas:

  • Marta Kania, Comunidad imaginada – comunidad re-inventada. Patrimonio cultural y juego con sus símbolos en la política neo-indigenista en el Cusco del siglo XX, Estudios Latinoamericanos, Sociedad Polaca de los Estudios Latinoamericanos, vol. 33-34, Varsovia – Poznan 2014, pp. 33-55.
  • Marta Kania, Old myths – new tradition: the “spectacle of power” in the politics of Peru and Bolivia in the beginning of the 21th century, Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies, vol. 14, Krakow 2013, pp. 46-64.
  • Marta Kania, Who owns, who decides and why not us? Debate on the ownership of the archaeological heritage: old questions, new solutions, Studies in Ancient Art and Civilizations, vol.17, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 2013, pp. 99-110.
  • Marta Kania, Positivists, Naturalists, Travelers, but not Settlers: Poles in Perú in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century, Polish American Studies, Vol. LXIX, no. 1, PAHA, Spring 2012, pp. 1-22.
  • Marta Kania, Discovery and manipulations. Archaeology, politics and the right to the cultural heritage in Peru in the centenary of the „Scientific Discovery” of Machupicchu, Studies in Ancient Art and Civilizations, vol. 14, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 2011, pp. 247-262.
  • Marta Kania, La nación que honra su pasado, honra a sí mismo. El difícil inicio de la museología nacional y la protección del patrimonio arqueológico del Perú (1822 – 1911), Studies in Ancient Art and Civilizations, vol. 14, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 2010, pp. 207-228.