Expertise Seminar: Heritage and Archives
Objectives
1) Develop theoretical and conceptual skills from a critical perspective;
2) Integrate the contents of the UC into the specific themes of research projects incorporating the debates, concepts and relevant theoretical and methodological components;
3) Frame the theoretical and practical perspectives related to the area of UC Heritage and Archives.
General characterization
Code
02111413
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Maria dos Anjos Maltez Cardeira da Silva
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
Almeida, S.V. & R.A. Cachado. 2019. "Archiving Anthropology in Portugal". Anthropology Today, Vol. 35 (1): 22-25.
Basu, P.; De Jong, F. 2016. "Utopian archives, decolonial affordances Introduction to special issue". Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale: 24, 15 -19.
Harrison, R. 2013. Heritage. Critical Approaches, London and New York: Routledge.
Logan, W., Craith, M.N. Kockel, U.(eds.). 2016. A Companion to Heritage Studies. UK: Wiley Blackwell.
Olwig, K.; Lowenthal, D. (eds). 2006. The Nature of Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Natural Heritage. London. New York: Routledge.
Roque, R. & K. Wagner (eds.). 2012. Engaging Colonial Knowledge. Reading European Archives in World History, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Smith, L., Akagawa, N. (eds.). 2009. Intangible Heritage. London, New York: Routledge.
Stoler, A. L. 2009. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Teaching method
The UC privileges the seminar as a pedagogical strategy, promoting:
- the transmission of analytical skills (problematization, research planning, types of methodological tools and conceptualization).
- discussion of texts aimed at the acquisition of skills, critical reflection and clear exposition of knowledge.
Evaluation method
Assessment - Active participation in the discussion in the seminars(20%), Final essay in research project format that reflects the acquisition of theoretical and methodological knowledge acquired throughout the year(50%), Presentation of critical readings of previously selected texts(30%)
Subject matter
- Cultural heritage and anthropology;
- Archives as a resource and cultural heritage register;
- Anthropological approaches to archiving: concepts and main theoretical debates;
- The colonial archives: decolonization of archives;
- Contemporary uses of archives;
- Archives and the production of heritage: 2nd life of ethnographic archives;
- The role of digital archives in the registration and preservation of culture;
- The canonization of heritage;
- Political and economic implications of patrimonialization;
- The cultural heritage and the natural heritage;
- Conflict and perception of the environment in protected areas;
- The production and consumption of wilderness;
- National and international heritage organizations CIP and the notion of cultural landscape;
- Intangible heritage, intellectual and material property; cultural property, possession and authorship; cultural heritage rights, museums and restitution;
- Identification of case studies.