This text presents some observations about the furniture of the 18th Century, especially about the furniture of Minas Gerais and its formal characteristics. It analyses aspects of the historiography about the Brazilian furniture.

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This article presents a reflection on the theme of praying women, based on IPHAN's "heritage" policies directed to the so- denominated "inmaterial heritage". Mediated by an anthropologic approach, its ethnographic focus includes the healing ritual, the learning process, the kinds of diseases, the prayers and the cures accomplished by praying women. Praying women or faith healers are women who accomplish the acts of blessing, expression that carries a material and symbolic meaning which may be very comprehensive. In order to perform the practice, they activate the knowledge of popular Catholicism, such as "pleas" and "prayers", aiming at restoring the material or physical as well as the spiritual balance of people who seek their help. The object is to discuss this practice and its implications in relation to what IPHAN names "office", "registration", "cultural reference", and "inventory", besides perceiving the nuances that are inherent to this magic, religious practice. The empiric context of the research is the city of Cruzeta, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

This text describes a research experience about the registration and diffusion of intangible heritage represented by memories of elderly, approaching the historian's work as a cultural action. Workshops to compose memory albums, starting from personal photographs, in order to propitiate an environment where women can share their narratives about living in the countryside and about the transition from rural to urban life in the twentieth century. It's an invitation to share intangible instantaneous.

O Instituto de Geociências da USP está ampliando seu campo de atuação na área de pesquisa de Mineralogia Aplicada, enfocando estudos sobre herança cultural. Como estudo de caso, este trabalho apresenta as técnicas mineralógico- analíticas usadas na caracterização de pinturas murais, em particular os afrescos de Fulvio Pennacchi na Capela do Hospital das Clínicas. O trabalho foi efetuado em projeto conjunto com o Centro de Preservação Cultural (CPC) da USP, representando, assim, uma interação de cientistas da área de ciências exatas com cientistas da área de conservação e preservação de bens culturais, interação esta cada vez mais importante para esta área de atividade.

The instrumental relationship between the building and the concept of event is diversified and complex. Either the building is the agent of a historical event or an event in itself, recognized as such within the history of the life of forms, that is, the field of architecture. I propose to include a third category: that of the building as instrument of a cultural creation acknowledged as event. The buildings, in their relationship with the event, have long been instruments of symbolic representation and information supports. The rapid development of entertaining industries opens a new chapter: the building can become the main machine for entertainment through events.

Pertencente a um museu universitário, o acervo do MAE/USP é fruto de pesquisas de campo de arqueologia e etnologia, gerando também estudos voltados especificamente para as coleções do museu. O texto apresenta um histórico das experiências realizadas no MAE nas áreas de conservação e arqueometria, propiciando conhecimentos essenciais para a investigação científica, tais como a caracterização e proveniência da matéria- prima; a tecnologia aplicada à fabricação de instrumentos; datações; e outros.