Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract:
The essay proposed here aims to lay the theoretical foundations for an Archive of marginal cultures, with the valorization of the wise role of the elderly and taking as a sample an internal area of Calabria, including the Municipalities of Grecanic language, with Reggio Calabria as the leader. The Archive, arranged on a digital platform, should be divided into five sections: 1. Rural architecture section, with the cataloguing of the signs left on the territory by the peasant, maritime and pastoral civilization; 2. Visual anthropology section, with old photos, family films, images of art and artists, films shot in Grecanic places; 3. Sound section, with songs of work, love, struggle, funeral vigils and lullabies; 4. Narrative section, with fairy tales, legends, proverbs, prayers; 5. Living Treasures Section, with interviews with all those who are bearers of mastery, according to UNESCO indications. The Archive is a very important tool for research, in particular for demo-ethno-anthropological research. It preserves the immense intangible heritage of the past, giving communities cultural memory - according to the Faro Convention - and also is an imaginative space towards the future. Unlike the Museum, where the exhibition of the past is given once and for all, the Archive allows a continuous action of retrieving images, fragments that at first glance seemed inessential and that instead can provide new, unprecedented connections. It therefore allows communities to play an active, transformative and therefore permanent education role. The Archive of the Grecanic area, including Reggio Calabria, has as an added value the point of view of the “margin” which, as Jacques Derrida explains, is not necessarily a condition of deprivation or marginalization, but being in a border position from which one can see new connections and produce a counter-hegemonic discourse, on the side of the “vanquished”.
