Course teached as: B030734 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE Second Cycle Degree in GEOGRAPHY, SPATIAL MANAGEMENT, HERITAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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.
*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
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