Additional Information

Course Number

ANTH 593

Course Level

Course Description

This seminar will explore the ideas surrounding the theories, discourses, and practices surrounding natural and cultural heritage. Heritage has become inscribed in the planning of urban and rural landscapes, designed as tourist destinations, and considered a universal good in global cosmopolitan society. But it would be well to ask: what kind of "nature" and "culture" has been labeled as heritage? What kind of organizations, economics, and politics are necessary to sustain it? How are these put in place? By whom? For whom? Over the course of the semester, students will engage with readings that discuss how cultural and natural heritage is communicated to the public and the relationship between academic critique and pragmatic social engagement. This seminar is further grounded by a partnership between the Penn Cultural Heritage Center and the U.S. Mission to UNESCO focused on the assessment of World Heritage Sites, and students will have the opportunity to learn from and participate in specific case studies

Syllabus Available

No

Notes

Not offered every year

Taxonomies

RPA Codes & Standards

• Archaeologist's Responsibility to Colleagues, Employees, and Students
• Archaeologist's Responsibility to the Public
• Integrity of Research Methodology

CIfA Codes

• Principle 2: Responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment
• Principle 3: Responsibility for acquiring and recording reliable information of the past in archaeological research
• Principle 4: Responsibility for the availability of archaeological results within reasonable dispatch

Keywords & Terms

• Adequate and Responsible Reporting, Publication, and Dissemination
• Consultation/Partnership with Affected Groups
• Culturally Significant and/or Sacred Sites, Objects, and Places
• General Archaeological Ethics
• Impact on Communities - Local, Descendant, etc.
• Integrity of Research Methodology and Field Procedures
• International Law
• Local, State, Federal, and Tribal Laws
• Management of Cultural Resources, Heritage, History
• Professional Relationships and Communication
• Public Interest, Collaboration, Education, and Outreach
• Respect for and Responsibility to Affected Groups
• Stewardship
• UNESCO

Topics & Issues

• Antiquities Trade
• Archaeological Ethics - Other
• Descendant, Resident, and Stakeholder Communities
• Destruction of Cultural Heritage
• Ethical Case Studies
• Heritage and Archaeological Tourism
• Heritage Management
• Interpreting the Past
• Legal Issues
• Politics and Archaeology
• Public Engagement, Outreach, and Education
• Public Lands and National Monuments, Parks, and Historic Places