Anthropology of Cultural Heritage - JSM796

• Title: Anthropology of Cultural Heritage
• Czech title: Antropologie kulturního dědictví
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Class: External course, not for registration; Courses not for incoming students

Annotation

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.


Lectureship: Associated Professor Emanuela Rossi

Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (09.09.2023)

Course completion requirements

Type of Assessment

Written exams

Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)

Literature

*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

Last update: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (03.08.2023)