In this way, we evaluate the different consequences of globalization processes in their interaction with local traditions. Our general hypothesis states that, although the studied performances come from different historic and cultural traditions, when incorporated to the cultural global market and the politics of "Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage", they are reconfigured like fields that operate with a similar logic: the relations among the actors are articulated around the disputes of a symbolic capital defined by the legitimacy of each practice according to the fidelity to their origins and early practitioners. Thus, within these fields, the tension between two types of forces can be found: between the legitimacy of conservation and innovation in local traditions, and between the hybridation and normalization induced by globalization. The specific hypothesis states that these tensions also are manifest in the bodies of urban performers because, on one hand, they are generally resocialized in body uses and holistic cosmologies that differ from their own habitus and redefine their body-world experiences; but on the other hand, in their daily life they still are subordinated to both body disciplinary practices promoted by the institutions of Modernity and the normalization practices induced by the postmodern consumption.