Κατεύθυνσης
Cultural Anthropology: Ethnography and Cultural Resources Management
Dr. Maria Pantaleou, contracted teaching staff
Ethnography as a multi-layered, evidence-based method of research focuses on culturemaking and the historiography of everyday life. How is culture and civilization experienced and represented by people in everyday life? How are micro-historical and macro-historical changes witnessed, remembered, recorded? By and through what material practices and means? By connecting the ethnography and history of Greek cultural memory and material culture with theories of archiving, exhibition and curation, this course explores cultural resources management as public anthropology and as a pedagogical and aesthetic practice. In the first part of the course students are exposed to theoretical perspectives and in the second part they analyze specific case studies and conduct individual participant observation field-based research exercises. Requirements for this course are: class attendance and active participation based on assigned readings, video screenings, presentation and analysis of multimedia public participatory events of cultural management, individual participant observation field-based research exercises, and an oral or written final exam.