Episode 11: Heritage Studies

# AnthroAlert## Episode 11: Heritage StudiesOriginally aired 4 August 2017 on bullsradio.orgIn this episode, we discuss how anthropology helps us to better understand culture and national identity.Our guest, Vivian Gornik, will present on heritage and museum studies.Vivian is a PhD Candidate in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida.She has a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Florida. As a cultural anthropologist she combines her interest in anthropology and museum studies by studying the people who visit museums and heritage sites.Vivian just completed the fieldwork for her dissertation project, which explores how heritage and national identity are linked at two sites in England: Glastonbury in Somerset and Tintagel in Cornwall. The goal of this research is to better understand the role that heritage sites and museums play in the production of national identities, especially in today’s global society where conceptualizations of national identity are becoming more difficult to define. The post-Brexit United Kingdom is a particularly strong example of a nation going through an identity crisis. What does it mean to be British? Do heritage sites in the U.K. represent a specific kind of national identity? Or is there the potential for these sites to engage with the U.K.’s multicultural reality?By better understanding the ways in which current heritage narratives are produced and consumed, suggestions can be made for how heritage can become more inclusive and representative.## Podcast link## Video linkhttps://youtu.be/wxLQ0PgCH6I## Album art photo credit:Oliver Thompsonhttps://flic.kr/p/9zVPYBCC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/Sitting on top of forever by Nelo Hotsumahttps://flic.kr/p/dagF8mCC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/## Intro music credit:Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkabahttp://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.