Culturas em Cena e Património (not translated)
Code
722001052
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Paula Godinho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. To develop a critical appraisal of the main social and cultural theories concerning heritage and cultural displays
2. To be able to activate anthropological concepts and tools for the analysis and reflection on the political and economic value of reification, commoditization and exhibition of culture
3. To develop skills to monitor social, cultural and economic impacts of these processes.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
a) Cultural displays performance, parade and monument.
b) Staged cultures dance, theatre, festival and ritual.
c) Ethnography and other shapes and stages of cultural display: ethnographic film, new screens and virtual cultures, ethnography and literature.
d) Cultural landscapes and the nature as culture display.
e) «Exhibitionary complexes» - nations and empires: The museums and the world exhibitions.
f) Performing difference: youth cultures and performance; multiculturalism and cultural performance; culture as class display.
Bibliography
DICKS, Bella, 2003 Culture on Display. The Production of Contemporary Visibility. London: Open University Press and Place. Oxford: New York: Berg.
KIRSCHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, Barbara. 1998. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
PHILLIPS, Ruth e STEINER, Christopher B., 1999. Unpacking Culture. Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press
URRY, John, 1997 «1995» Consuming Places. London: Routledge
Teaching method
The course will work under a seminar regime. Classes will alternate moments of theoretical framework with thematic sessions of debate around texts, films and case studies presented by students for each of the thematic modules. Student´s participation is essential and will be evaluated according to a pre-defined timetable. The pace of work will require the reading of at least one text for each class, as well as the progressive reading of the bibliography of general interest.
Evaluation method
Evaluation is based on: participation/ presentation and discussion of bibliographical references (40%); final essay (60%).