Senior Researcher at the Universidade de Évora (Portugal), member of CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades), Cyril Isnart is an anthropologist and currently works on religion, music and heritage-making in Southern Europe (France, Portugal, Greece). He is responsable for the international programme Religious Memories and Heritage Practices in the Mediterranean. Confessional Coexistence and Heritage Assertion (2013-2015), funded by the national research agency of Portugal FCT (PTDC/IVC-ANT/4033/2012) and co-founded the international Network of Researchers on Heritagisations known as Respatrimoni in 2009 (repatrimoni.wordpress.com).
He published his first monograph in 2008, Saints légionnaires des Alpes du sud (Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) and various papers in the International Journal of Heritage Studies (UK), the Journal of Mediterranean Studies (Malta), Memoria em Rede (Brazil) or ethnographiques.org (France-Switzerland). He co-edited two issues of Ethnologie Française (2013, Paris) and Civilisations (2012, Bruxels) and taught cultural anthropology at the universities of Provence, Paris-V-René Descartes, Bologna and Évora.
Selected publications on heritage:
- 2013 – “’Contra danças não há argumentos’: A dança entre património e moral no âmbito de uma associação cultural portuguesa”, Revista Memória em Rede. http://www.ufpel.edu.br/ich/memoriaemrede/beta-02-01/index.php/memoriaemrede/article/view/161/129. ISSN 2177-4129
- 2012 – ed. with Anais Leblon, “Au-delà du consensus patrimonial. Résistances et usages contestataires du patrimoine”, Civilisations, 61(1). http://civilisations.revues.org/3096. ISSN 0009-8140
- 2012 – “Les patrimonialisations ordinaires. Essai d’images ethnographiées” in ethnographiques.org, 24 http://www.ethnographiques.org/2012/isnart. ISSN 1961-9162
- 2012 – “The Mayor, the Chapel and the Ancestors. Clientelism, Emotion and Heritagisation in Southern France”, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18-5: 479-494 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13527258.2011.632640#preview. ISSN 1352-7258
- 2012 – “The Mediterranean invention of heritage. Images and uses of cultural heritage in the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Memories, Audiovisual heritage, http://www.medmem.eu/en/folder/30.