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This paper is an exercise on the ethnographic interpretation of the "paseode olla", an urban practice observed at a traditional park in bogotá, the "Parque Nacional Enrique Olaya Herrera". The text combines ethnographic descriptions and reflections about the urban public space as well as socio-spatial analyses of human interaction. The text emphasizes in the importance of space practices analyses as forms of culture materialization in urban contexts. It also shows the persistence of the family in contemporary urban practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the results of a research project about practices and representation of natural and cultural heritage in Bogotá, this paper contributes to the anthropology of space and other disciplines associated to it. It introduces the concept of place-heritage as a notion that will be helpful in the participatory management of heritage, regarding social interaction and practices in such places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]