TEAM

Holder of a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona (2003) and a postgraduate diploma in African Studies from the Rovira i Virgili University (1995).

He has carried out postdoctoral research placements at the University of Oxford and the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Maritime Research of the University of Amsterdam;a visiting researcher at the University of Laval, where he is currently collaborating on a research project;and a guest lecturer at the University of Los Lagos (Chile). Since 2009, he has taught social anthropology classes as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Girona, andhe is also a tutor in Ethnography at the Open University of Catalonia. He has undertaken various studies on the anthropology of time, particularly an anthropological study of the work of Josep Pla, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis. His current research area is the heritagization processes that are underway in coastal societies, with a particular focus on traditional boats, the role of women, knowledge, the heritagization of nature, and small-scale fishing.

PUBLICATIONS  

ALEGRET, J.L & CARBONELL, E. (eds.) (2014) Revisiting the Coast: New Practices in Maritime Heritage. Girona, Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural
  CARBONELL, Eliseu (2014) "Opportunities and Contradictions in Maritime Heritage and Small-scale Fishing. A Case Study of Catalonia.”, Collegium Antropologicum, 38(1):289-296
CARBONELL, Eliseu (2014) “Not Just Any Port After a Storm : The Commemoration and Heritagization of Fishing in Catalonia”, International Journal of Maritime History, 26(2):288-303.
  CARBONELL, E. (2012) The Catalan Fishermen’s Traditional Knowledge of Climate and the Weather: a Distinctive Way of Relating to Nature, International Journal of Intangible Heritage, 7: 61-75
  CARBONELL, E. (2012) "The Fishermen’s Beach: Cultural Heritage and Contested Identity in a Touristic Place". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2(9): 13-22
  ALCALDE, G.; BURCH, J.; CARBONELL, E.; DOMÈNECH, G. (2012) “Identificaciones patrimoniales en conflicto. Análisis a partir de tres casos en Cataluña”. Revista Andaluza de Antropología, nº2
CARBONELL CAMÓS, E. (2011) “Between tourism and heritage: The conversion of Catalan maritime culture into heritage. Opportunities and challenges” a Prats, Ll. (ed). . Bloomington, United States of America, Palibrio, 2011, p. 194-203
CARBONELL CAMÓS, E. (2011) “Literary and anthropological reflections on the transformation of the Costa Brava landscape over a century in relation to the works of Josep Pla” a Prats, Ll. (ed). . Bloomington, United States of America, Palibrio, 2011, p. 171-178
    CARBONELL, E. (2010) ‘Exactly what I had been looking for’: the Anthropology of the Mediterranean 1950-1970”, con(textos). Revista d’antropologia i investigació social, 4:5-22
  CARBONELL, E. (2010) “La patrimonialización de un paisaje marítimo: de la arena de la playa a la arena política”, Pasos. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 8(4): 569-58
PUJOL, E.; CARBONELL, E. (2009) Records d’una dona de mar, Palamós, Fundació Promediterrània
  CARBONELL, E. (2009) “Micromuseums for big questions: Colecting maritime remains as an everyday political practice”, Quaderns-e de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia, 14/2009(b)
CARBONELL, E. (2009) “Beach, Heritage and Locality: The Politics of Identity in a Coastal Catalan Town”, Leeds, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
CARBONELL, E. (2006). Josep Pla: El temps, la gent i el paisatge. Una etnografia de l’Empordà franquejant la literatura, Barcelona, Edicions de 1984.
CARBONELL, E. (2004) Debates acerca de la Antropología del tiempo, Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona