Patrimonio Inmaterial, un Derecho de los Pueblos por su Liberación Cultural: Una Mirada en Latitud Cero

Intangible heritage on the world stage is a topic that has gained relevance from 2003 with the Declaration of Intangible Heritage in the Paris Convention. Ecuador ratified its accession in 2005 and gradually develops actions to sensitize the people regarding the importance ofsafeguard the permanence of knowledge and doings in the social memory and in the collective consciousness. Humanity lives in scenarios in which sociocultural conditions havebeen altered by media action. Traditions, in fragile contexts geo-political, have been affected by acculturizing practices that together with consumerism and mercantilism, silently become part of the back room of the monocultural empire. As peoples descended from the great Abya Yala, It is urgent to put a stop to the growing processes of gentrification that haunt the space urban, to the processes of intensive cultural industries in tourism that promotefolklorizing practices of ancestral cultures, taking over the knowledge Andean-Amazonian and Afro-descendants, under figures of 'cooperation' or 'development'.