HERITAGE: POLITICS AND PRACTICES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
- Academic year
- 2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- HERITAGE: POLITICHE E PRATICHE NEL MONDO ISLAMICO
- Course code
- LM2500 (AF:368706 AR:212314)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-OR/11
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
Pre-requirements
Contents
- the birth of archaeology in the Near East: colonial policy and patrimonialisation; the creation of Mesopotamia; the imperialist museum.
- cultural heritage and nation building: the case of Iraq, from monarchy to Saddam; Mustafa Kemal's Turkey
- epistemology of conservation and restoration practices; the value of authenticity; the community and its culture
- international community and heritage protection: from colonialism to UNESCO; destruction, looting, restitution
CASE-STUDY
- Contested identities: the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, heritage of Islam?
- Conservation and preservation for the community: Darb al-Ahmar in Cairo
- Heritage building in Qatar between Islamic art, ethnography and oil
Referral texts
AAVV, The Azhar Park Project in Cairo and the Conservation and Revitalization of Darb al-Ahmar, The Agha Khan Trust for Culture, on-line publication
Ç. Atakuman, Cradle or crucible: Anatolia and archaeology in the early years of the Turkish Republic (1923-1938), Journal of Social Archaeology 2008, pp. 214-235
Zainab Bahrani, Conjuring Mesopotamia. Imaginative geography and a world past, in Lynn Meskell (ed.) Archaeology Under Fire. Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, London and New York 1998, pp. 159-174
Matteo Benussi, The golden cage: heritage, (ethnic) Muslimness,and the place of Islam in post-Soviet Tatarstan, Religion, State & Society 49:4-5, 2021, pp. 314-330
M. T. Bernhardsson, Archaeology and Nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003, in R. Boytner, L. Swartz Dodd, B. J. Parker (eds) Controlling the Past, Owning the Future, Tucson, 2010, pp. 55-67
Joachìn Marìa Còrdoba, On the Iraq Museum and Other Assaults Brief News about the Plundering of lraqi Museums and the Systematic Looting of lraqi Archaeological Heritage, ISIMU III, 2000 (publication date?), pp. 15-22
R. Daher e I. Maffi, Introduction, in R. Daher e I. Maffi (eds) The politics and practices of cultural heritage in the Middle East, London 2014, pp. 1-38
Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi, Archeologia e Conservazione, Milano 2007: Il dibattito sull’autenticità, pp. 227 e 230
Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Il valore discriminante dell'autenticità prima e dopo Nara, ANAGK 52, 2007, pp. 70- 73
M. Diaz-Andreu, Guest editor's introduction. Nationalism and archaeology, Nations and Nationalism 7 (4), 2001, 429-440
Kristin A. Eggeling, Cultural diplomacy in Qatar: Between ‘virtual enlargement’, national identity construction and elite legitimation, International Journal of Cultural Policy 23 (2) 2017, pp. 1-15
EMEK SHAVEH (ONG), TheTemple Mount/ Haram al-Sharif – Archaeology in a Political Context, pubblicazione on-line (http://alt-arch.org/en/ )
Karen Exell & Trinidad Rico, ‘There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other problematic histories, World Archaeology 45 (4) 2013, pp. 670-685
Karen Exell, Desiring the past and reimagining the present: contemporary collecting in Qatar, Museum & Society 14 (2) 2016, pp. 259-274
Maria Pia Guermandi, Decolonizzare il patrimonio: Cap. 3. UNESCO, un patrimonio universale con un’anima occidentale, Roma 2021, pp. 82-106
Ömür Harmanşah, ISIS, Heritage, and the Spectacles of Destruction in the Global Media, Near Eastern Archaeology78 (3), Special Issue: The Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East (September 2015), pp. 170-177
Daniel Hull, Orientalism: Islamic Archaeology and Its Colonial Context, in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 2013(on-line)
Marxiano Melotti, Turismo archeologico. Dalle piramidi alle veneri di plastica, Milano, Mondadori, 2008: capitoli selezionati
Stephennie Mulder, War and Recovery, The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology, Oxford 2020, pp. 707-730
David Shankland, Afterword: Heritage, Nationalism and Archaeology in the Republic of Turkey, in S. Redford and N. Ergin (eds.) Perceptions of The Past in the Turkish Republic: Classical and Byzantine Periods, Leuven, 2010, pp. 225-236
A. D. Smith, Authenticity, antiquity and archaeology, Nations and Nationalism 7 (4), 2001, pp. 441-449
Lauso Zagato, Simona Pinton, Marco Giampieretti, Lezioni di diritto internazionale ed europeo del patrimonio culturale: Protezione e Salvaguardia, Venezia 2017: cap. 3, pp. 33-67
Lauso Zagato e Simona Pinton, Lezioni di diritto internazionale ed europeo del patrimonio culturale 2: Circolazione e restituzione, Venezia, 2018: capp. 8, 11
Assessment methods
A) 35% of final mark
The student is required to submit an essay at least one week before the day of the oral examination; this essay should focus on an archaeological site of his/her choice, agreed with the teacher or it may develop a specific topic. In this work the student will have to show that he/she has acquired the necessary critical skills and tools to understand the whole process of patrimonialisation, from research to valorisation, in the contexts of the local politics and practices, with a critical apprach.
B) 65% of final mark)
During the oral exam, students will be asked to illustrate some of the topics covered in the lesson, with the help of images. This part of the exam aims to verify that the student has acquired basic knowledge of the subjects and case studies discussed, and adequate critical skills to deal with their study.
Teaching methods
Teaching language
Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development