The Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in Europe
A Brief Genealogy from the Desk (1970–2020) and Empirical Observations from the Field (2010–2020)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2021500102Keywords:
cultural heritage, UNESCO, anthropology of cultural heritage, Europe, politicsAbstract
This article offers an overview of the origins and development of the anthropology of cultural heritage in Europe, tracing its main genealogical lineages stemming from kindred disciplines and methods in a comparative fashion. This brief genealogy is then complemented by a set of considerations and observations about the author’s personal ethnographic explorations of various European countries and regions, again with the aim of fruitful comparison. The article discusses how the anthropology of cultural heritage in Europe emerged, where it stands now, and where it might be going.
Downloads
References
Adell, Nicolas. 2011. Le patrimoine, l’éthique, l’identité. La Ricerca Folklorica 64: 81–93.
Adell, Nicolas et al., eds. 2015. Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. https://books.openedition.org/gup/208.
Ballacchino, Katia. 2013. Per un’antropologia del patrimonio immateriale: Dalle Convenzioni Unesco alle pratiche di comunitŕ. Glocale 6–7: 17–32.
Bendix, Regina. 2000. Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from One Fin de Sičcle to the Next. In Folklore, Heritage Politics and Ethnic Diversity: Festschrift for Barbro Klein, eds. Pertti J. Anttonen et al., 37–54. Botkyrka: Multicultural Centre.
Berliner, David, and Chiara Bortolotto. 2013. Introduction: Le monde selon l’Unesco. Gradhiva 18: 4–21. Boissevain, Jeremy, ed. 1992. Revitalizing European Rituals. London: Routledge.
Bortolotto Chiara. 2011. Introduction: Le trouble du patrimoine culturel immatériel. In Le patrimoine culturel immatériel: Enjeux d’une nouvelle catégorie, ed. Chiara Bortolotto, 21–43. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’homme.
Bravo, Gian Luigi. 2005: La complessità della tradizione: Festa, museo e ricerca antropologica. Milan: Franco Angeli.
Brumann Christoph. 2014. Heritage Agnosticism: A Third Path for the Study of Cultural Heritage. Social Anthropology 22 (2): 173–188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12068.
Brumann, Christoph. 2015. Cultural Heritage. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 5, ed. James D. Wright, 414–419. Oxford: Elsevier.
Cerezales, Nathalie, and Cyril Isnart, eds. 2021. The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity. London, Oxford: Bloomsbury
Clemente Pietro. 2005. Oltre l’orizzonte. In Cultura popolare e mondo tecnologico, 235–270. Napoli: Guida.
[Italian translation of: Hermann Bausinger. 1961. Volkskultur in der technischen Welt. Stuttgart: Kolhammer.]
Di Giovine, Michael. 2008. The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Fabre, Daniel. 1994. Ethnologie et patrimoine en Europe. Terrain 22: 145–150.
Fabre, Daniel. 2000. Domestiquer l’histoire: Ethnologie des monuments historiques. Paris: Éd. de la Maison des sciences de l’homme.
Fabre Daniel, and Charles Camberoque. 1977. La Fête en Languedoc: Regards sur le carnaval aujourd’hui. Toulouse: Privat.
Gallini Clara. 1971. Il consumo del sacro: Feste lunghe di Sardegna. Bari: Laterza.
Fourcade, Marie-Blanche, ed. 2007. Patrimoine et patrimonialisation: Entre le matériel e l’immatériel. Laval: PUL.
Frykman, Jonas, Ulrich Kockel, and Máiréad NicCraith, eds. 2012. Companion to the Anthropology of Europe. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hafstein, Valdimar Tr. 2004. The Making of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Tradition and Authenticity, Community and Humanity. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Berkeley.
Hafstein, Valdimar Tr. 2012. Cultural Heritage. In A Companion to Folklore, eds. R. Bendix and G. Hasan-Rokem, 500–519. Malden: Wiley.
Hafstein, Valdimar Tr., and Martin Skrydstrup. 2020. Patrimonialities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Handler, Richard. 1985. On Having a Culture: Nationalism and the Preservation of Quebec’s Patrimoine. In Objects and Others: Essays on Museum and Material Culture, ed. George W. Stocking, 192–217. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Handler, Richard. 1988. Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Harrison, Rodney. 2013. Heritage: Critical Approaches. New York: Routledge.
Heinich, Nathalie. 2009. La Fabrique du patrimoine: De la cathédrale à la petite cuillère. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme.
Heinich, Natalie. 2012. Les émotions patrimoniales: De l’affect ŕ l’axiologie. Social Anthropology 20 (1): 19–33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00187.x.
Hertz, Ellen, and Suzanne Chappaz-Wirthner. 2012. Le patrimoine a-t-il fait son temps? In Ethnographiques.org: Revue en ligne de sciences humaines et sociales 24. https://www.ethnographiques.org/2012/ Hertz-Chappaz-Wirthner.
Herzfeld, Michael. 1982. Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hemme, Dorothe, Michael Tauschek, and Regina Bendix, eds. 2007. Prädikat “Heritage”: Wertschöpfungen aus kulturellen Ressourcen. Münster: LIT.
Hobsbawm Eric J., and Terence Ranger, eds. 1983. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hottin, Christian, ed. 2011. Le patrimoine culturel immatériel: Premières expériences en France. Paris: Maison des Cultures du Monde e Babel.
Imbriani, Eugenio. 2011. I beni culturali immateriali: Da folklore a patrimonio. Italianieuropei 2: 1–5.
Isnart, Cyril, and Alessandro Testa, eds. 2020. Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe. Monographic issue of Ethnologia Europaea 50 (1). https://ee.openlibhums.org/issue/303/info.
Johler, Reinhard. 2002. The EU as Manufacturer of Tradition and Cultural Heritage. In Culture and Economy, ed. Ullrich Kockel, 223–223. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Klein, Barbro, Stein R. Mathisen, and Anna-Leena Siikala, eds. 2004. Creating Diversities: Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1995. Theorizing Heritage. Ethnomusicology 39 (3): 367–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/924627.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1998. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Knecht Michi, and Peter Niedermüller. 2002. The Politics of Cultural Heritage: An Urban Approach. Ethnologia Europaea 32 (2): 89–104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.933.
Lähdesmäki, Tuuli. 2016. Politics of Tangibility, Intangibility, and Place in the Making of a European Cultural Heritage in EU Heritage Policy. International Journal of Heritage Studies 22 (10): 766–780. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2016.1212386.
Logan, William, Ullrich Kockel, and Máiréad Nic Craith. 2015. The New Heritage Studies: Origins and Evolution, Problems and Prospects. In A Companion to Heritage Studies, eds. William Logan, Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel, 1–25. Malden: Wiley.
Logan, William, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Ullrich Kockel, eds. 2015. A Companion to Heritage Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lowenthal, David. 1998. Fabricating Heritage. History and Memory 10 (1): 5–24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25681016.
Maffi, Irene, ed. 2006. Il patrimonio culturale. Roma: Meltemi.
Macdonald, Sharon. 2013. Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today. London, New York: Routledge.
Nic Craith, Máiréad. 2008. Intangible Cultural Heritages: The Challenges for Europe. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 17 (1): 54–73.
Nora, Pierre, ed. 1984–1992. Les Lieux de mémoire. 3 Vols. Paris: Gallimard.
Nora, Pierre, ed. 1997. Science et conscience du patrimoine. Paris: Fayard.
Noyes, Dorothy. 2006. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership. Cultural Analysis 5: 27–56.
Palumbo, B. 2006 (2003). L’UNESCO e il campanile: Antropologia, politica e beni culturali in Sicilia orientale. Roma: Meltemi.
Poulot, Pierre Maurice. 1997. Musée, nation, patrimoine, 1789-1815. Paris: Gallimard.
Silvén, Eva. 2018. Museums, Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies in Sweden 1993–2017. Nordisk Museologi 25 (1): 119–129.
Smith, Laurajane. 2006. Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge.
Smith, Laurajane. 2007. Cultural Heritage: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Smith, Laurajane, and Natsuko Akagawa, eds. 2009. Intangible Heritage. London, New York: Routledge.
Tauschek, Markus. 2010. Cultural Property as a Strategy: The Carnival of Binche, the Creation of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property. Ethnologia Europaea 39 (2): 67–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.1056.
Tauschek, Markus. 2011. Reflections on the Metacultural Nature of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 5 (2): 49–64. https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/76.
Tauschek, Markus. 2013. Kulturerbe: Eine Einführung. Berlin: Reimer.
Testa, Alessandro. 2014a. Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale: Le dimensioni storiche e socio-culturali di una festa appenninica. Napoli: Loffredo.
Testa, Alessandro. 2014b. Review of Memorylands. Heritage and Identity in Europe Today by S. Macdonald. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 22 (4): 512–513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12092_20.
Testa, Alessandro. 2016a. From Folklore to Intangible Cultural Heritage: Observations about a Problematic Filiation. Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde 119 (34): 183–204.
Testa, Alessandro. 2016b. Problemi e prospettive della ricerca demo-etno-antropologica su memoria sociale, (n)ostalgia, ritualitŕ pubblica e patrimonio culturale immateriale nell’Europa post-socialista. Lares 82 (2): 237–276.
Testa, Alessandro. 2017a. “Fertility” and the Carnival 1: Symbolic Effectiveness, Emic Beliefs, and the Re-enchantment of Europe. Folklore 128 (1): 16–36.
Testa, Alessandro. 2017b. “Fertility” and the Carnival 2: Popular Frazerism and the Reconfiguration of Tradition in Europe Today. Folklore 128 (2): 111–132.
Testa, Alessandro. 2018. Les « derniers » et leurs « saveurs » : Mythe culturel, discours académique, et/ou réalité historique?. Paper for the seminar “Apocalypses, salut et sauveurs culturels. Anthropologie des activistes patrimoniaux”. Tourtour: Fondation des Treilles.
Testa, Alessandro. 2019. Events that want to become Heritage: On the Vernacularisation of ICH and the Politics of Culture and Identity in Public Rituals. In Heritage and Festivals in Europe, eds. Cristina Clopot et al., 79–94. London: Routledge.
Testa, Alessandro, 2020. “Retro-futurology”, ICH, and European Complex(iti)es. Paper for the Fifth Association of Critical Heritage Studies Biannual Conference Future. London.
Testa, Alessandro. Forthcoming. The Ritual Making of Central Catalonia 1: National Identity and the Hanging of the Donkey. In Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia, eds. Alessandro Testa and Mariann Vaczi. Cultural Analysis.
Testa, Alessandro, and Mariann Vaczi, eds. Forthcoming. Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia. Monographic Issues of Cultural Analysis.
Tornatore, Jean-Louis, ed. 2019. Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
Tunbridge, John E, and Gregory J. Ashworth. 1996. Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past as a Resource in Conflict. Chichester: Wiley.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
More in: Submission chapter
