About

Research Context

Europe | Mediterranean

Research Interests

Cultural heritage | Religion | Culture

Institutional Subunit

ISCTE

Biographical Note

Researcher at CNRS, member of IDEMEC (CNRS-Aix Marseille Université), Cyril Isnart is an anthropologist working on religion, music and heritage-making in Southern Europe (France, Portugal, Greece). After a PhD at the Université de Provence in Anthropology of Religion (2000-2004), Cyril Isnart studied festivals, musical life and heritage-making in a border village between France and Italy. He is now interested in heritage strategies of religious minorities in the Mediterranean. He co-founded the international Network of Researchers on Heritagisations known as Respatrimoni in 2009 (respatrimoni.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 five special issues of "Ethnologie Française", "Civilisations", "Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change", "Cultura", and "Etnográfica".