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B030734 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
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Academic Year 2021-22
Coorte 2020 - Second Cycle Degree in GEOGRAPHY, SPATIAL MANAGEMENT, HERITAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-DEA/01 - DEMOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
21/02/2022 ⇒ 03/06/2022
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
English
Course Content
DECOLONIZING MUSEUMS
This course seeks to address the relationships between museums and our society. In recent decades, museums have encountered enormous changes. We will focus on these changes by mainly working through case studies. The strength of the “heritage paradigm” in the contemporary will be analyzed by focusing on some of the “tensions” surrounding museums and heritage, and the protagonists of their contemporary successes and challenges.
This course seeks to address the relationships between museums and our society. In recent decades, museums have encountered enormous changes. We will focus on these changes by mainly working through case studies. The strength of the “heritage paradigm” in the contemporary will be analyzed by focusing on some of the “tensions” surrounding museums and heritage, and the protagonists of their contemporary successes and challenges.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
*Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips (eds), Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization, Blackwell Pub.,2020.
*Mary Bouquet, Museums: A Visual Anthropology, Berg Publishers,2012.
*The students should have knowledge of the basics of cultural anthropology (the concept of culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, etc.).
Otherwise, the study of a handbook on cultural anthropology is mandatory.
*Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropology, Pearson, 2017
*Mary Bouquet, Museums: A Visual Anthropology, Berg Publishers,2012.
*The students should have knowledge of the basics of cultural anthropology (the concept of culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, etc.).
Otherwise, the study of a handbook on cultural anthropology is mandatory.
*Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropology, Pearson, 2017
Prerequisites
The students should have knowledge of the basics of cultural anthropology (the concept of culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, etc.).
Otherwise, the study of a handbook on cultural anthropology is mandatory.
*Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropology, Pearson, 2017
Otherwise, the study of a handbook on cultural anthropology is mandatory.
*Barbara Miller, Cultural Anthropology, Pearson, 2017
Teaching Methods
In class lectures
Type of Assessment
Written exams