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This paper discusses the relationship between a cultural manifestation and its own community. It’s resulted of a research project from Federal University of Alagoas, named “Survey intangible cultural heritage of Penedo and Coruripe - Alagoas.” The project was realized from 2007 until 2008, and as its title explains itself, had to order to identify some of the intangible cultural manifestation in these municipality. One of the study objects of the project was the “Mané do Rosário,” an authentic folklore party from Poxim village (Coruripe- AL). Then, the order of this paper it’s to identify the relationships established between the cultural manifestation the “Mané do Rosário” and the Poxim population itself.

This paper is part of the General Research Project: “Tourism and development: new scenarios in the comprehensive management of tourist destinations in the southwest of Buenos Aires. Part II”, which takes place in the Department of Geography and Tourism at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina). The project aims to: inquire about the recreational use of Bahia Blanca’s historic center, as a gathering space of local cultural heritage, while presenting a series of results obtained from field work and implementation of the “outcrop of meanings technique” as a representative tool for the gathering of information on the field.

The cultural heritage shapes the identity of people, is capable of triggering progress in the communities from a holistic perspective. The purpose of this paper is to show the in fluence of gender in the conservation and utilization of cultural heritage and emphasize the importance of integrating social participation of women and men equally to strengthen social cohesion and detonate development processes. Three approaches are the theoretical methodological approach: gender mainstreaming, regional development and ethnography through documentary information, interviews and participatory workshops. We conclude that cultural heritage is key to the progress of the community, since it is considered as a development strategy.

Cultural assets are increasingly being considered in the policies of social and economic development of territories due to spillover effects. However, since cultural assets are not transacted in the market, their use value should be calculated using indirect methods of evaluation or non market techniques. In this paper, the travel cost method was chosen to estimate the curve of demand in the Museum of Lamego which constitutes an important cultural item of the Alto Douro Wine Region, classified by UNESCO in 2001, as a world heritage site – a living and evolving cultural landscape. The results of the application of the Poisson model confirm the expected, that is, the probability of visiting the museum is positively influenced by the educational level, female gender and negatively by the travel cost.

In this paper we trace the emergence of a specific case of cultural policy: the example chosen is a UNESCO World Heritage site, namely the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADW) a portuguese living and evolving cultural landscape. In order to contextualize the particularities of the means that have been adopted for the management of the ADW, we use Throsby’s (2001) typology of most commonly-used cultural heritage policy instruments. Additionally we draw on the arguments that are frequently used to support public intervention in this sphere. We conclude that ADW’s management policy should: 1) use binding agreements to operational-ize a range of measures that compensate farmers who become providers of cultural products; 2) strengthen education and information so as to promote greater physical access and personal appreciation of the ADW’s cultural goods and services; and 3) formulate an integrated set of social policies able to mitigate the negative socio-demographic trends that characterize the region and its population

This short paper analyzes the Black Magic Collection of the Museum of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, which was preserved by Brazil’s institute of history and culture [IPHAN] in 1938, according to Lévi-Strauss’s theoretical framework as laid out in The View from Afar (1986).

The sport practice has become these last decades in a daily and more and more habitual aspect in the life of the Spanish society; and also in an important and privileged leisure alternative for sample layers of the population. From this perspective, and counting whereupon the tourism is one of the main activities of vacacional leisure for most of the individuals, we found whereupon tourism and deports - two activities that, on the other hand, they have known a parallel evolution throughout all the 20th Century- find in this place of contact an important relation. In this paper, we try to analyze some aspects related to this important entailment between sport tourism and practical supply from a contemporary optics

The relations that bind to diverse types of tourists and to the inhabitants of the visited places have originated a series of cultural characteristics that are, nowadays, subject of study by the anthropologists. However, we cannot to obviate another type of relations that are of great interest for understanding the changes that are taking place because of the tourism: the people's relations with their environment. The modification of the ecosystems, whose objective is to promote and to facilitate the tourist expansion, it has influenced directly the ways of life of the different receiving communities from the tourism, chang-ing, in addition to its surroundings, the form in that they are related to it. In this paper the study of those questions is approached from the frame of the Ecological Anthropology and its application to the Cultural Tourism

Cultural assets are increasingly being considered in the policies of social and economic devel- opment of territories due to spillover effects. However, since cultural assets are not transacted in the market, their use value should be calculated using indirect methods of evaluation or non market tech- niques. In this paper, the travel cost method was chosen to estimate the curve of demand in the Museum of Lamego which constitutes an important cultural item of the Alto Douro Wine Region, classified by UNESCO in 2001, as a world heritage site – a living and evolving cultural landscape. The results of the application of the Poisson model confirm the expected, that is, the probability of visiting the museum is positively influenced by the educational level, female gender and negatively by the travel cost.

In this paper we trace the emergence of a specific case of cultural policy: the example chosen is a UNESCO World Heritage site, namely the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADW) a portuguese living and evolving cultural landscape. In order to contextualize the particularities of the means that have been adopted for the management of the ADW, we use Throsby’s (2001) typology of most commonly-used cultural heritage policy instruments. Additionally we draw on the arguments that are frequently used to support public intervention in this sphere. We conclude that ADW’s management policy should: 1) use binding agreements to operational- ize a range of measures that compensate farmers who become providers of cultural products; 2) strengthen education and information so as to promote greater physical access and personal appreciation of the ADW’s cultural goods and services; and 3) formulate an integrated set of social policies able to mitigate the negative socio-demographic trends that characterize the region and its population.