Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Author: Dorle Dracklé

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781571814524

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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.


Reckoning and Framing

Reckoning and Framing

Author: Balázs Borsos

Publisher: Waxmann Verlag

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 3830996292

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It is necessary for every discipline to take stock of its own current state every 20-30 years. Such review helps determine the discipline's path and tasks for the coming decades, and it also facilitates reflection upon the changes and challenges of the scientific and non-scientific world around it. For this purpose, the Committee of Ethnography of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organized a series of conferences on the current state and the future of ethnography between 2018 and 2020. Those papers of international interest have been translated and are presented in this volume. The first section discusses the dilemmas of ethnography/ethnology as an independent discipline. Articles in the second section provide a fresh perspective on the intrinsic interrelatedness of agriculture, livelihood, environmental perception, and traditional ecological knowledge studied by Hungarian ethnographers. The subsequent section scrutinizes research into and management of cultural heritage in Hungary and the role of ethnographic scholarship in safeguarding intangible heritage. The volume closes with insightful case studies on when ethnographic situations/experiences can be translated into meaningful social actions.


The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

Author: Marie-Claire Foblets

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 993

ISBN-13: 0192577018

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity. The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.


The Szeged School of Ethnology

The Szeged School of Ethnology

Author: Gábor Barna

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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The first university department of ethnology in Hungary was established in 1929 in the Franz Joseph University of Szeged. This book examines the many stages of the university's history. The first professor was the folklorist Sandor Solymossy (1864-1945). After his retirement the chair was not filled in Szeged from 1934 to 1947. In the 1940s many of the leading representatives of ethnography in Hungary in the 20th century were connected with the school: Gyula Ortutay, Istvan Talasi, Bela Gunda and others. In 1947 Sandor Balint (1904-1980) was appointed to the reorganized chair of ethnography. The totalitarian dictatorship of socialism barely tolerated ethnography which it regarded as a national science, and in 1965 Sandor Balint was condemned in a show trial and forced to retire. Development of the department and the teaching of ethnography did not begin until the time of the change of political system (1989-1990). Full-time training in ethnography, folkloristics and cultural anthropology has been given since 1992/1993.


Repatriating Polanyi

Repatriating Polanyi

Author: Chris Hann

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9633862884

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Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964) grew up. The Polanyian approach illuminates both the communist era, in particular the “market socialist” economy which evolved under János Kádár in Hungary, as well as the post-communist transformations of property relations, civil society and ethno-national identities throughout the region. Hann’s analyses are based primarily on his own ethnographic investigations in Hungary and South-East Poland. They are pertinent to the rise of neo-nationalism in those countries, which is theorized as a malign countermovement to the domination of the market. At another level, Hann’s adaptation of Polanyi’s social philosophy points beyond current political turbulence to an original concept of “social Eurasia”.


The Races of Europe; A Sociological Study (Lowell Institute Lectures)

The Races of Europe; A Sociological Study (Lowell Institute Lectures)

Author: William Zebina Ripley

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-08

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13: 9781297590191

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Before Boas

Before Boas

Author: Han F. Vermeulen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-07

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 0803277385

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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.