Curso: Património Imaterial
Organic Unit: FCSH
Research Center: CRIA
This course has already had two editions, Património Cultural Imaterial in 2020 and Metodologias da Antropologia para o Património Cultural Imaterial in 2022, both educating the non-academic public on Intangible Cultural Heritage and encouraging its study, safeguard, valorization and dissemination.
In 2020, the course “Património Cultural Imaterial” (PCI) aimed at disseminating this knowledge about Intangible Cultural Heritage – promoting the study, safeguarding, enhancement and dissemination of cultural diversity and fostering sustainable development – as defined in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), ratified by Portugal in 2008.
In 2022, the course “Metodologias da Antropologia para o Património Cultural Imaterial” focused on methodologies of anthropological practice in ICH documentation and safeguarding processes. From ethnographic research to collaborative methods and the use of new technologies, the course meets the principles of the Convention in its recognition of groups and communities as privileged actors in the practices of knowledge and dissemination of their heritage.
Both aimed to disseminate knowledge about ICH to the public interested in the subject, namely non-academic, and to train local agents for the study, safeguarding, valorization and dissemination of ICH.
