Insegnamento mutuato da: B030734 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE Laurea Magistrale in GEOGRAPHY, SPATIAL MANAGEMENT, HERITAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Lingua Insegnamento
INGLESE
Contenuto del corso
DECOLONIZING MUSEUMS
This course seeks to address the relationships between heritage 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.
*Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips (eds), Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization, Blackwell Pub.,2020.
* Rodney Harrison, Heritage: Critical Approaches, Routledge 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
Non-attending students will have to study:
* Rodney Harrison, Heritage: Critical Approaches, Routledge 2012.
*And all materials uploaded to the moodle platform
For them the final exam will consist of a written assignment, to be done in class, with 4 "open" questions aimed at checking the study and understanding of the exam texts and the acquisition of the basic vocabulary of the discipline. They will be given 2 hours.
Prerequisiti
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
Metodi Didattici
In class lectures and site vsits
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Final paper outline: as preparation for the final paper, students will be required to
produce an outline of the proposal for their research paper (of approx. 500 words) to be
reviewed and approved by the course professor.
Final paper: students will be required to write an original research paper (of 3,000 words)
on the subject of their choice, supported by academic sources (students should use the
sources provided on the syllabus as a starting point) and include an extensive bibliography.