Actors - Narratives - Strategies. Constellations of Transnational Folklore Research, 1875-1905

演员 - 叙述 - 策略。

• 批准号: 470684551
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christiane Schwab
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/470684551?language=en
• 关键词: Actors; Narratives; Strategies.; Constellations; Transnational

The research project makes a first fundamental contribution to the transnational historiography of folklore studies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In order to investigate the processes of professionalization and systematization of folklore research in an interconnected European space, the project (re-)constructs micro-historical units of analysis, so-called ‘transnational constellations’, as networks of actors, infrastructures, narratives, and epistemic orders. To conduct a historical analysis of such networks of action and communication with a focus on transnational knowledge practices, the project draws on constructivist situational analysis and combines it with the conceptual framework of histoire croisée/entangled history. In this conception, the project examines transnational processes of exchange in their relevance for the formation of folkloristic knowledge and practice, while also focusing on their interdependencies with social, political, scientific, and economic conditions that influenced (the diverse forms of institutionalization of) folklore studies on a local and regional scale. Three sets of questions are investigated in thick descriptions and multi-scalar analyses of transnational constellations. First, the project examines the motives, strategies, and socioeconomic and biographical preconditions of the actors whose relationships and knowledge practices transcended nation-state borders. Second, it elaborates on the sense-making narratives that served as instruments for the identification of interests and problems and determined the diverse forms of transnational work in folklore research. Third, it investigates the strategic positionings of disciplinary self-assertion and logics of regional and national institutionalization processes of folklore research in the context of transnational entanglements.The project’s goal of laying a foundation for a transnational historiography of folklore research (by means of scholarly articles, a monograph, a master's thesis, and several contributions to the project Bérose – Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie) is complemented by its link back to debates on disciplinary history. In a scholarly workshop with a subsequent publication, ‘transnational folklore research’ will be discussed not only as a finding, but also as an interpretament, to reflect anew on legitimized modes of knowledge of disciplinary historiographies as well as disciplinary self-understandings associated with it, and to discuss (im)possibilities and potentials of a transnational/-regional/-cultural history of folklore studies.

该研究项目对19世纪末20世纪初的跨国民俗学史学做出了第一个基础性贡献。为了在一个相互关联的欧洲空间中调查民俗学研究的专业化和系统化进程，该项目(重新)构建了微观历史分析单位，即所谓的“跨国星座”，作为行动者、基础设施、叙事和认知秩序的网络。为了对这种行动和交流网络进行历史分析，重点放在跨国知识实践上，该项目借鉴了建构主义的情景分析，并将其与历史记录/纠缠历史的概念框架相结合。在这一构想中，该项目审查了跨国交换过程与民俗学知识和实践形成的相关性，同时也侧重于它们与社会、政治、科学和经济条件的相互依存关系，这些条件影响了地方和区域范围内的民俗学研究(各种形式的制度化)。通过对跨国星座的密集描述和多标量分析，研究了三组问题。首先，该项目考察了其关系和知识实践超越民族国家边界的行为者的动机、战略以及社会经济和传记前提条件。其次，阐述了作为识别利益和问题的工具的有意义的叙事，并确定了民俗学研究中跨国工作的多种形式。第三，在跨国纠葛的背景下，考察了学科自我主张的战略地位以及民俗学研究的区域和国家制度化进程的逻辑。该项目的目标是为跨国民俗学研究史学奠定基础(通过学术文章、一本专著、一篇硕士论文和对L人类学的《国际民俗学纪实》项目的几篇贡献)，并与学科史辩论的链接相补充。在随后出版的学术讲习班上，“跨国民俗研究”不仅将作为一种发现，而且将作为一种解释加以讨论，以重新思考学科史学知识的合法化模式以及与之相关的学科自我理解，并讨论跨国/地区/文化史民俗学研究的可能性和潜力。