Anthropology and Heritage
Code
711001049
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Paula Godinho
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
LO1. To learn, question and use the key-concepts on Heritage and Anthropology;
LO2. To develop critical insights on Heritage and Anthropology, through critical reading of contemporary bibliographical references;
LO3. To improve oral and written competences and individual or team work;
LO4. To incorporate the seminar/course issues and debates on a research projects
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
P 1Introduction. Use of concepts: memory, patrimony/heritage, tradition, identity, culture.
P 2. Processes and practices of heritage. The «heritage factory»: production and consumption. Heritage and places.
P 3. Heritage and timeline: the right to memory, the right to forget and the presenteeism. Amnesia and hipermnesia.
P 4. Ethnographies of Heritage. Anthropologists, UNESCO and the ´Intangible Heritage´
Bibliography
BORTOLOTTO, Chiara, coord. (2011) Le Patrimoine culturelle immatériel Enjeux d´une nouvelle catégorie, Paris, FMSH.
COSTA, Paulo, ed. (2009) Museus e Património Imaterial Agentes, fronteiras, identidades, Lisboa, MC-IMC.
FRIGOLÉ, Joan; del MÁRMOL, Camila; NAROTZKY, Susana eds. (2010) Los lindes del património Consumo y valores del passado, Barcelona,
Icaria/ICA.
GODINHO, P., ed. (2012) Usos da memória e Práticas do Património, Lisboa, Colibri.
HARTOG, F. (2003) Régimes dhistoricité Présentismes et expériences du temps, Paris, Seuil.
HEINICH, N. (2009) La fabrique du patrimoine: de la cathédrale à la petite cuillère, Paris, EMSH.
LOWENTHAL D. (1985) The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge, CUP.
PERALTA, Elsa, Anico, M., eds. (2006) Patrimónios e Identidades Ficções Contemporâneas, Lisboa, Celta.
PRATS, Llorenç (1997) Antropología y património. Barcelona, Ariel
TRAVERSO, E. (2005) Le passé, modes d´emploi - histoire, mémoire, politique, La Fabrique Editions, Paris
Teaching method
The course is divided into theoretical and theoretical-practical lectures (by the professor and guests), seminars and film exhibitions
During the course, students must develop several skills and competences based on Learning Objectives. Different Teaching-learning
methodologies will be used to achieve those objectives.
Methodologies of teaching-learning:
1. Expository, to present the theoretical frames of reference
2. Participatory, with collective seminar debates
3. Active, with individual and team presentations
4. Self-Learning - autonomous work
Evaluation method
Evaluation: presentation of a text (25%); attendance and participation (15%) and a written essay (60%)