World Comparison and World Knowledge: Ethnographic (Travel) Literature and Comparative Sciences (1850–1950) (D04 [B03])

该分项目研究了18世纪末和19世纪世界旅行文学中的比较实践，当时比较科学、自然历史和民族志实践正在产生新的比较程序和叙事。我们现在的重点是进一步发展制度化形式的民族志和旅行文学，作为欧洲现代性的驱动力。我们正在研究当时新成立的德语期刊，这些期刊探索并结合了心理学、民族学、文献学和旅游文学等广泛领域的比较实践(1850-1900)，我们专注于法国人类学和人种学旅游文献，这些文献测试并批判性地质疑了科学界发展的比较方法以及文化现象的可比性(1900-1950)。

The subproject studied practices of comparing in world travel literature in the late 18th and the 19th centuries when comparative sciences, natural history, and ethnographic practices were generating new procedures and narratives of comparing. We are now focusing on the further development of institutionalized forms of ethnography and travel literature as driving forces of modernity in Europe. We are studying what were then newly founded German-language journals that explored and combined comparative practices across a wide array of fields such as psychology, ethnology, philology, and travel literature (1850–1900), and we are focusing on French anthropology and ethnographic travel literature that tested and critically questioned the comparative methods developed in the scientific communities along with the comparability of cultural phenomena (1900–1950).