Heritage Theories and Policies

Code:

MHP022

Acronym:

TPP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	10	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

MAIN GOAL:
To make a reflection about POLICIES (institutional) and THEORIES (concepts about heritage and its evolution)

SPECIFIC GOALS:

- To observe senses and contexts where one can speak of heritage: “public use of History”, and/or “traditions’ inventions”, expressions which translate the political manipulation of history and culture;
- To develop the perception and the contexts of information production in time and space, as well as of the identification and validation of information sources, developing specific competences in the critical use of documentation;
- To measure memory policies, of the objects and products which emerge from the construction of human societies; of the reflexion and comprehension of memory construction in time and space (world of work, handicraft, industry, maritime/coastal, religious, rural and urban world, etc.), by crossing and working the documentary and bibliographical information.
- to analyze heritage theories and policies within the framework of the discussion about the materiality and immateriality of "things people want to save".

Learning outcomes and competences

Main goal:
- to propose a path that allows the identification of the contextual processes of heritage recognition, between “public use of History”, and / or “invention of traditions”, between theories and practice.

Specific objectives:

- to provide students with the perception of contexts of information production, the identification and validation of information sources, developing specific skills in the critical use of documentation;
- to assess the policies of “memory”, of objects and products that emerge in the construction of human societies, of reflection and understanding, in time and space, of memorial constructions, crossing and working with documentary and bibliographic information).

- to apprehend the mechanisms of invention and construction of heritage - from the ambivalence of the concept of heritage to the widening of its scope

- to acquire skills to read a “site” whatever it may be, from the movable object to the property, from the water to the panel, taking into account heritage policies.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

not applicable

Program

Part I - heritage, identity, memory
- WHAT TO DO WITH HERITAGE TODAY? AND TOMORROW?

1. Heritage or heritages? – A derivation? An invention? A policy from the past? – a critical review of heritage ideologies and policies;

2. Theory(ies) and practice(s) – from the “nation state” to the widespread commercialisation of the world: heritage, identity, memoir and authenticity issues;

3. Heritage and creation: “fabricating” heritage: “from the cathedral to the tea spoon”, from the “memory places” to the “non-places” – the ontological vivification: the image and policies of visibility and attractiveness.

4. Heritage, identity and tourism.

II PART - HERITAGE AS A PROCESS - PATRIMONIALIZATION

1. the faces of a "cube"
2. authenticity or recreation
3. the fixity of the "types of heritage" - debates
4. the "freshness" of environmental heritage - between the human sciences and the "exact"
5. the "new look" and "the cities we have not visited"

Mandatory literature

Choay, Françoise; L' Allégorie du Patrimoine, Paris, du Seuil, 1999
Guillaume, Marc; A Política do Património, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2003
González-Varas, Ignácio; Conservación de Bienes Culturales. Teoria, Historia, Princípios y Normas, Madrid, Ediciones Cátedra, 2003 - 3ª ed.
Nora, Pierre (dir. de); Les Lieux de la Mémoire, Paris, Gallimard, 1984-1992
Smith Laurajane; Uses of heritage. ISBN: 978-0-415-31831-0
Peralta Elsa 340; Patrimónios e identidades. ISBN: 972-774-233-5
Anico Marta 340; Heritage and identity. ISBN: 978-0-415-45336-3
Isabel Lopes Cardoso; Paisagem património

Complementary Bibliography

Connerton, Paul; Como as Sociedades Recordam, Oeiras, Celta Editora, 1993
Heinich, Nathalie ; La fabrique du Patrimoine. “De la cathédrale à la petite cuillère ». , Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’homme, 2009

Comments from the literature

Specific bibliography will be presented.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes have a strong theoretical component, although discussions around experiences such as decision making individual, collective and institutional. Or literature exercises between two narratives: one of the history of an object, "a thing" and another of its transformation in heritage: the first is focused on how and why the place is significant, and may include the history of architecture and artistic as well as political, economic and social, the second should be focused on how it was stored, managed and interpreted.
This exercise should provide a definition of the differences between the two study objects and how they need each other.

And still a written comment about memories and identities - material and immaterial - or an exercise in an area of bibliographic heritage (natural, archaeological – in the long term, art, architecture, documentary, photographic, immaterial, etc..).

keywords

Social sciences > Cultural studies
Humanities > History
Humanities > History > Archaeology > Comparative archaeology
Social sciences > Anthropology > Ethnology
Social sciences > Anthropology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	25,00
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	80,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance at a minimum of 75% of classes, except in cases foreseen by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Each student must actively participate in classes in a “distributed assessment” regime, with small written exercises and completed with a small final essay in which they will address a topic taking into account their work project and that must be presented orally in class.

Examinations or Special Assignments

According to UP regulation

Internship work/project

not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to UP regulation

Classification improvement

According to UP regulation