Seminar in Image, Culture and Heritage - 2nd semester
Code
73200103
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Cardeira Silva
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
At the end of the seminar the students will be able to:
OA1) Develop theoretical and analytical skills, namely in terms of concepts, for writing their thesis.
OA2) Develop critical competences
OA3) Acquire the ability to integrate their research project within the main debates and analytical perspectives that characterise the field of ICH.
OA4) Acknowledge the research carried out in response to demands from public agents, state agencies and other entities.
OA5) Develop a reflection on the values underlying the practice of preservation and the ICH.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
P1 - Culture and ICH as an economic and political resource. Politicization and commodification of culture. Museum and heritage sites.
P2 - The nature of cultural heritage and the culture of natural heritage. Museums and the production of heritage.
P3 ICH as equivalent to the ethnological notion of culture.
P4 From the World Heritage List to the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible HH. The fado as ICH.
P5 Cultural diversity and Universal values
P6 - As Festas Nicolinas.
P7-Cultural and natural Heritage. The notion of cultural landscape.
P8 Conflict and perception of protected areas; the notion of wilderness.
P9 Intangible heritage, cultural and material property. Ownership and authorship; the cultural heritage rights.
P10- Preservation of heritage as a value. Inventories and lists.
P11 The ICH as a metacultural phenomenon;heritage by consent and by descent. The canonization of heritage.
P12 Critical heritage studies and the notion of authorized heritage discourse.
Bibliography
Graham, B., and P. Howard eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, London : Ashgate, 2008.
Harrison, Rodney, 2013, Heritage. Critical Approaches, London and New York: Routledge.
Heinich, Nathalie, La Fabrique du Patrimoine. Paris, 2009.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, World Heritage and Cultural Economics, in Karp, Ivan and Corinne A. Kratz eds., Museum Frictions. Public Cultures/ Global Transformations, Durham : Duke University Press, 2006, 161-202
Kurin, Richard, Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the 2003 UNESCO Convention: A Critical Appraisal, Museum
International, 56 (1-2), 2004, 66-77.
Olwig, Karen and David Lowenthal eds., The Nature of Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Natural Heritage, London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Smith, Laurajane, Uses of Heritage, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Smith, Laurajane and Natsuko Akagawa eds., Intangible Heritage, London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
Teaching method
Teaching methodologies are based on the transmisison of analytical competences in seminar (problematization, research design, methodological tools and conceptualization); discussion in seminar designed to enable the acquisition of competencies and practices of critical reflection, theoretical skills and ability to present current research in public.
Focus put on the team dimension of the research line.
Evaluation method
Each session requires previous readings followed by seminar discussion ( 20%) and Final essay up to 20 pages ( 80%)