Anthropology of Heritage and Tourism
Academic Year 2026/2027 - Teacher:
ALESSANDRO LUTRI
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course in Anthropology of Cultural Heritage aims
to provide knowledge and competences useful for:
1) acquiring knowledge of
heritage-making processes (both local and global) in relation to territories
and local communities;
2) applying knowledge of territorial
heritage (tangible and intangible) in order to foster, through collaborative ethnographic
methodologies, the social participation of individuals and communities in its
protection and enhancement;
3) fostering independent judgement on
heritage processes;
4) improving public communication
skills regarding heritage processes;
5) developing
the learning skills needed to independently gather documentation on heritage
processes, accessing bibliographic sources and reference tools, so as to pursue
further study autonomously.
Course Structure
Teaching will be organised into a series of lessons, some held with the
participation of other lecturers or experts, and classroom presentations by
attending students on the collection of essays included in the syllabus
concerning ecomuseology. During the lessons, dialogic discussion with the class
will be favoured, in order to better assess the topics addressed critically.
Non-attending students will submit summaries of at least two of the essays
prior to the oral examination.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course focuses
on the strong (political, cultural and social) link between communities,
heritage (tangible and intangible) and territory, highlighting:
1.
the study of popular culture in Italy,
from the late nineteenth century to the emergence of the heritage paradigm;
2.
the concept of cultural heritage
through the critical tools of anthropology,
showing that heritage (tangible
and intangible) is not a distinctive, given
feature of communities, but the result of a process of political and cultural selection;
3.
ecomuseology as a new, innovative and
participatory form of enhancement of territorial heritage (tangible and
intangible);
4. the role of heritage anthropology between critique and participation.
Textbook Information
Fabio
Dei, 2018, Cultura popolare in Italia. Da
Gramsci all’Unesco, Il Mulino, Bologna (pag. 250)
Vito
Lattanzi, Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze
e prospettive, Carocci, Roma
(2021,
pag. 150)
Further readings:
A collection of essays on Italian experiences and
perspectives in ecomuseology (available as PDF on Studium)
Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its
amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their
content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning
photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla
Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i
Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on
Copyright).
The teachers undertake, within
the limits of the financial resources, to ensure as far as possible that a copy
of the adopted texts is available in the departmental library or (in the case
of hard-to-find texts, articles and essays) to make them available on Studium,
in accordance with the applicable copyright laws.
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