Internationalization Processes of European Ethnology in the Cold War from 1945 to 1970

1945年至1970年冷战期间欧洲民族学的国际化进程

• 批准号: 273765394
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Friedemann Schmoll
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Bereich Volkskunde/Kulturgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/273765394?language=en
• 关键词: Internationalization; Processes; European; Ethnology; Cold

Internationalization Processes of European Ethnology in the Cold War from 1945 to 1970 The historiography of European Ethnology is characterized by two significant converging desiderata: Firstly, the focus on the national origins of European Ethnology largely ignores transnational scholarly entanglements and transfers. Secondly, this methodological nationalism obscures the lasting impact of the Cold War as an eminently influential political context to the international development of the discipline. Therefore, a reappraisal of the conditions under which the discipline developed during the Cold War and which continue to influence European Ethnology today is urgently needed. This academic void is the focus of the proposed research project. Analyzing East-West German Volkskunde is an excellent object of research to obtain significant knowledge concerning the internationalization processes of European Ethnology after 1945 because it was an important point of intersection to the ideological system rivalry during the Cold War. As a representative example the proposed project will focus on the development of transnational scholarships between 1945 and 1970. It will bring to light the influence of the conceptual East-West-Bias regarding transnational activities of European Ethnology in processes of theory production and the standardization of ethnological and anthropological concepts. The project will take a detailed look at the dichotomy between Western and Eastern orientations as well as competing concepts. Parallel to these epistemological questions we will examine the sociopolitical determinations of specific practices of knowledge production and the interplay of networks, organizations and institutions. Uncovering persistent structures of transnational knowledge production will facilitate new approaches for future international cooperation.

冷战时期欧洲民族学的国际化进程（1945 - 1970年）欧洲民族学的历史编纂有两个重要的趋同性：一是欧洲民族学的民族渊源研究忽视了跨国界的学术纠葛与交流。其次，这种方法论的民族主义掩盖了冷战作为一个具有显著影响力的政治背景对该学科国际发展的持久影响。因此，重新评估的条件下，该学科在冷战期间的发展，并继续影响欧洲民族学今天是迫切需要的。这一学术空白是拟议研究项目的重点。分析东西德的埃斯肯德是一个很好的研究对象，以获得有关1945年后欧洲民族学国际化进程的重要知识，因为它是冷战期间意识形态体系竞争的重要交汇点。作为一个有代表性的例子，拟议的项目将侧重于1945年至1970年期间跨国奖学金的发展。这将揭示出欧洲民族学跨国活动中的概念性东西偏见在理论生产和民族学、人类学概念规范化过程中的影响。该项目将详细研究西方和东方方向之间的二分法以及相互竞争的概念。与这些认识论问题平行的是，我们将考察知识生产的具体实践的社会政治决定因素以及网络、组织和机构的相互作用。揭示跨国知识生产的持久结构将促进未来国际合作的新方法。