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Cultural heritage can be defined as the legacy
of tangible artifacts or material culture and
intangible attributes such as customs, practices,
rites or values of a group, society or community
inherited from the past, maintained in the
present and passed on to future generations.
This course investigates the ways how Turkey,
in the past and the present, has defined,
transformed, re-contextualized and
instrumentalized forms of cultural heritage for its
needs and values.
In the scope of this course, it is going to be
examined how cultural heritage was
transformed into national heritage with the rise
of (cultural) nationalism. The uses of cultural
heritage in contemporary Turkey is another
topic of the course. Other topics that will be
discussed in the course include (the creation of)
museums, libraries and archives, archaeological
practices, the creation and preservation of
monuments, national-history writing, the
destruction or alteration of forms of cultural
heritage, propagandistic interpretation of
cultural heritage, and revived or invented
traditions.
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