Heritage, Environment and Museology
Code
722170093
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Museology and Natural History. Scientific progress and popular instruction. The emergence of ethnography. Processes and objetives in ethnographical collections. Ethnography and archaeology. New orientations: the priority to enviromental issues.
b) The interaction between museums and space: a history. Diversification of museological tipologies. Contemporay issues.
c) Regional museums. Representations of territory and interdisciplinary dialogues. Environment and social intervention. Ecomuseology.
d) Heritage processes and values. Institutional contexts. Methodologies: case studies. Terminology and concepts. Musealization vs. heritagization.
e) Overview of the Portuguese situation. Central and regional interventions. Diagnosis and renovation. Economic issues and the role of private initiative. Recent projects.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
a) Museology and Natural History. Scientific progress and popular instruction. The emergence of ethnography. Processes and objetives in ethnographical collections. Ethnography and archaeology. New orientations: the priority to enviromental issues.
b) The interaction between museums and space: a history. Diversification of museological tipologies. Contemporay issues.
c) Regional museums. Representations of territory and interdisciplinary dialogues. Environment and social intervention. Ecomuseology.
d) Heritage processes and values. Institutional contexts. Methodologies: case studies. Terminology and concepts. Musealization vs. heritagization.
e) Overview of the Portuguese situation. Central and regional interventions. Diagnosis and renovation. Economic issues and the role of private initiative. Recent projects.
Bibliography
DAVIS, Peter. Museums and the natural environment: The role of Natural History museums in biological conservation. London & New York: Leiscester University Press. 1996. 286 p. il.
DESVALLÉES, André (ed.). Vague : Une anthologie de la nouvelle muséologie, 2 vols. Mâcon: W-MNES, 1992/1994. (Museologia). 530 e 574.
GOUVEIA, Henrique Coutinho. Museologia e Etnologia em Portugal: Instituições e personalidades. (Doutoramento em Antropologia, especialidade Museologia, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1997) Vol. I, 700 p.; Vol. II, 496 p.
RIVIÈRE, Georges-Henri. La muséologie selon ... Paris: Dunod. 1989. 402 p. il.
LORD, Barry, Gail Dexter (ed.) LORD. Planning our museums. National Museums of Canada. 1983. 309 p.
UZZELL, David (ed.). Heritage Interpretation: vol. I The natural and built environment; vol. II The visitor experience. London and New York: Belhaven Press, 1989. 237 p. il. e 223 p. il.
Teaching method
The seminar combines a) lectures with b) seminars dedicated to the presentation and debate of bibliographical references by the students.
Evaluation method
Grading is based on the evaluation of a) oral presentations of bibliographical references (40%); b) final essay on a specific topic (60%).