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The Study of European Ethnology in Austria

Author : James R. Dow,Olaf Bockhorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351881449

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The Study of European Ethnology in Austria by James R. Dow,Olaf Bockhorn Pdf

The study of ethnology or ’Volkskunde’ in Austria has had a troubled past. Through most of the 20th century it was under the influence of the so-called Viennese ’Mythological School’ and the controversy between the two opposing branches, the ’Ritualist’ and the ’Mythologists', set much of the agenda from the 1920s until long after the World War ended in 1945. The volume examines two Austrian characters, Richard Wolfram and Karl Haiding, and the impact of their research and sets them in the context of Austrian ethnology before, during and after the war years. The book concludes by examining the present day ethnological outlook in the country.

Everyday Culture in Europe

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317138464

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Everyday Culture in Europe by Máiréad Nic Craith Pdf

This book discusses the history and contemporary practice of studying cultures 'at home', by examining Europe's regional or 'small' ethnologies of the past, present and future. With the rise of nationalism and independence in Europe, ethnologies have often played a major role in the nation-building process. The contributors to this book offer case studies of ethnologies as methodologies, showing how they can address key questions concerning everyday life in Europe. They also explore issues of European integration and the transnational dimension of culture in Europe today, and examine how regional ethnologies can play a crucial part in forming a wider 'European ethnology' as local participants have experience of combining identities within larger regions or nations.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe

Author : Ullrich Kockel,Máiréad Nic Craith,Jonas Frykman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119111627

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe by Ullrich Kockel,Máiréad Nic Craith,Jonas Frykman Pdf

A Companion to theAnthropologyof Europe BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe “The volume also deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries as well as the larger public library.” Reference Reviews “Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” Choice “This important collection challenges all anthropologists to re-examine the importance of European perspectives on the most provocative debates of our time. It transcends regional interests to highlight the complex intellectual landscape of our field.” Tracey Heatherington, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee “This significant volume critically interrogates assumptions about Europe as an idea and a place for research. It provides fresh perspectives on the past and future of anthropological studies of Europe.” Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY at Buffalo, President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Utilizing diverse approaches to the anthropological study of Europe, Kockel, Nic Craith, and Frykman provide a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary practices. Investigating the subject both geographically and thematically, the companion covers key topics such as location, heritage, experience, and cultural practices. Written by leading international scholars in the field, the volume constitutes the first authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students of anthropology and European studies.

Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain

Author : Mike Tyldesley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061922

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Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain by Mike Tyldesley Pdf

Folk dancer, forester, poet and visionary, Rolf Gardiner (1902-71) is both a compelling and troubling figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain. While he is celebrated as a pioneer of organic farming and co-founder of the Soil Association, Gardiner's organicist outlook was not confined to agriculture alone. Convinced that a healthy culture and society could only flourish when it was rooted in the soil, Gardiner sought national regeneration too. One of the most colourful and controversial figures of the interwar period, Gardiner believed Britain's future lay not with its doomed empire, but in ever closer union with its 'kin folk, kin tongued' neighbours in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. Fascinated by the Weimar Republic's myriad youth leagues and life reform movements, Gardiner became an important conduit between North Sea and Baltic. Yet while an enthusiasm for hiking, nudism, folk dancing and voluntary labour camps must have appeared harmlessly eccentric to many in 1920s Britain, by the late-1930s Gardiner's continued engagement with Germany was to have altogether darker connotations. This volume, which brings together seven scholars currently working on different aspects of Gardiner's life and work, eschews a straightforwardly biographical approach and instead focuses on the decades when he was at his most dynamic and radical. Situating Gardiner within the wider political and cultural contexts of the interwar years and exploring youth culture, the origins of the organic movement, Anglo-German relations and British cultural history, it is an essential addition to modern history libraries.

Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

Author : Reinhard Johler,Christian Marchetti,Monique Scheer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839414224

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Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones by Reinhard Johler,Christian Marchetti,Monique Scheer Pdf

World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.

Ethnologia Europaea Vol. 42:1

Author : Orvar Löfgren,Regina F. Bendix
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788763537476

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Ethnologia Europaea Vol. 42:1 by Orvar Löfgren,Regina F. Bendix Pdf

How did an African elephant reach a North European museum? What makes fashion displayed in museums such a hot topic today? Two of the articles in this issue of Ethnologia Europaea deal with museum ideologies. Liv Emma Thorsen’s essay follows the story of a museum elephant. What lessons can be drawn from its death, transport and exhibition in a postcolonial world? Marie Riegels Melchior looks at the intersection of the fashion industry and nation branding as an arena for developing new museums. These two articles tie in with Alexandra Schwell’s reflections on ideological shifts in Austrian state officials’ concept of the nation’s place on the political landscape, past and present. Patrick Laviolette explores metaphors of emplacement to understand regional character through its linguistic idiom. Relying on extensive fieldwork, Vihra Barova employs classical kinship scholarship to understand present-day Bulgarian village ties as they are expressed in the festivities of extended families.

Exemplarische Forschungsfelder aus 25 Jahren Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Graz

Author : Helmut Konrad,Stefan Benedik
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Austria
ISBN : 3205785185

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Exemplarische Forschungsfelder aus 25 Jahren Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Graz by Helmut Konrad,Stefan Benedik Pdf

Continues Mapping contemporary history: Zeitgeschichte im Diskurs.

Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643962232

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond by LIT Verlag Pdf

During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange. This volume contains the annual reports (2018/2019 & 2019/2020) of the Center Directors and the papers of their PhD students, which discuss various topics on mostly (East-)Central European History from several perspectives and in different centuries. Ferdinand Kühnel, Postdoc researcher at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna Nedžad Ku?, PhD candidate at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna Marija Wakounig, Professor at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna

Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Sabina Owsianowska,Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498543828

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Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe by Sabina Owsianowska,Magdalena Banaszkiewicz Pdf

In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Poland.

The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991

Author : Aleksandar Boskovic,Chris Hann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643905079

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The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991 by Aleksandar Boskovic,Chris Hann Pdf

The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imaginations of their northern European neighbors. These peoples and places have anthropological traditions of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and, later, by socialism and other political constraints. From an anthropological perspective, this book explores the region between Greece and Slovenia, when political pressures were strongest in the era of the Cold War. Yet, the environments were by no means uniformly repressive. The study provides indispensable insights for new generations pursuing innovative research agendas in this region in the new century. It raises deeper issues about the boundaries and substance of the anthropological endeavor. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia - Vol. 29)

Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Author : Dorle Dracklé,Iain R. Edgar,Thomas K. Schippers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571819053

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Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology by Dorle Dracklé,Iain R. Edgar,Thomas K. Schippers Pdf

Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume presents a rich panorama of local histories, contexts and experiences, which are essential contributions to current debates on the role and significance of anthropology in an era of converging Higher Education policies. More practically,the volume offers teachers and students the possibility ofdeveloping international exchanges supported by a previously unobtainable knowledge of institutional historiesand differing local contexts.

Contemporary Popular Music Studies

Author : Marija Dumnić Vilotijević,Ivana Medić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658252533

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Contemporary Popular Music Studies by Marija Dumnić Vilotijević,Ivana Medić Pdf

This is the second volume in the series that documents the 19th edition of the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The volume contains contributions on the variety of musical genres from all over the world. Authors engage with the role of popular music in contemporary music education, as well as definitions and conceptualizations of the notion of ‘popular’ in different contexts. Other issues discussed in this volume include methodologies, the structure and interpretations of popular music scenes, genres and repertoires, approaches to education in this area, popular music studies outside the Anglophone world, as well as examinations of discursive and technological aspects of numerous popular music phenomena.

Reading Matters

Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Festschriften
ISBN : 9783863955847

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Reading Matters by Ulrich Marzolph Pdf

The present book is a special gift for a special colleague and friend. Defined as an “Unfestschrift,” it gives colleagues, students, and friends of Regina Bendix an opportunity to express their esteem for Regina’s inspiration, cooperation, leadership, and friendship in an adequate and lasting manner. The title of the present book, Reading Matters, is as close as possible to an English equivalent of the beautiful German double entendre Erlesenes (meaning both “something read/a reading” and “something exquisite”). Presenting “matters for reading,” the Unfestschrift unites short contributions about “readings” that “mattered” in some way or another for the contributors, readings that had an impact on their understanding of whatever they were at some time or presently are interested in. The term “readings” is understood widely. Since most of the invited contributors are academics, the term implies, in the first place, readings of an academic or scholarly nature. In a wider notion, however, “readings” also refer to any other piece of literature, the perception of a piece of art (a painting, a sculpture, a performance), listening to music, appreciating a “folkloric” performance or a fieldwork experience, or just anything else whose “reading” or individual perception has been meaningful for the contributors in different ways. Contrary to a strictly scholarly treatment of a given topic in which the author often disappears behind the subject, the presentations unveil and highlight the contributor’s personal involve¬ment, and thus a dimension of crucial importance for ethnographers such as the dedicatee.

Before Boas

Author : Han F. Vermeulen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803277380

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Before Boas by Han F. Vermeulen Pdf

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the "natural history of man." Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how "ethnography" originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as "ethnology" by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by researchers in other countries. Before Boas argues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, studying racial and ethnic diversity, respectively. Ethnography and ethnology focused not on "other" cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following G. W. Leibniz, researchers in these fields categorized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.

Food Values in Europe

Author : Valeria Siniscalchi,Krista Harper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350084780

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Food Values in Europe by Valeria Siniscalchi,Krista Harper Pdf

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values become tools for transforming power dynamics at the local level and beyond. Through the comparison of food-centered movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives. The chapters use an ethnographic approach to focus on the transformation of values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy, and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange, and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, shepherds' protests in Sardinia, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia.