Trance Media and New Media of Two Thresholds of Globalisation (1900 and today)

本研究计划探讨两个全球化时代中个人恍惚媒介与新技术媒介之间的关系。我们发现关于出神实践的现代性的公开辩论在1900年左右被整合到现代媒介概念中，目前被宗教和世俗组织“全球本地化”。当前项目的人种学部分一直在观察将区域固定的实践转移到全球化的离散，并将在未来调查在北非和欧洲之间的阿拉伯语跨国空间中处理恍惚媒介和新媒体的竞争性现代化战略。通过历史比较，对这一动态发展的调查将有助于修订媒体人类学的关键概念。

This research-project investigates the relationship between personal trance-mediums and new technical media in the two eras of globalization. We find public debates about the modernity of trance-practices that are integrated around 1900 into the modern concept of the medium, and at present are "glocalized" by religious and secular organisations. The ethnographic part of the current project has been observing the transfer of a regionally anchored practice into a globalized diaspora, and will in the future investigate the competing modernizing strategies that deal with trance mediums and new media in the arab-speaking transnational space between North Africa and Europe. The investigations of this dynamic development will contribute to a revision of media anthropological key-concepts, via historical comparisons.