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

该研究项目为19世纪末和20世纪初的跨国民俗史学研究做出了第一个基本贡献。为了在一个相互联系的欧洲空间中调查民俗学研究的专业化和系统化过程，该项目（重新）构建了微观历史分析单元，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。为了以跨国知识实践为重点，对这种行动和交流网络进行历史分析，该项目借鉴了建构主义情境分析，并将其与历史交叉交叉/纠缠历史的概念框架相结合。在这个概念中，该项目考察了跨国交流过程与民俗学知识和实践形成的相关性，同时也关注了它们与社会、政治、科学和经济条件的相互依赖性，这些条件影响了地方和区域范围内民俗学研究（制度化的各种形式）。本文研究了跨国星座的厚描述和多标量分析中的三组问题。首先，该项目考察了超越民族国家边界的关系和知识实践的行动者的动机、策略以及社会经济和传记先决条件。其次，阐述了具有意义的叙事，它作为识别兴趣和问题的工具，并决定了民俗研究中跨国工作的多样化形式。第三，在跨国纠缠的背景下，考察民俗学研究的学科自我主张的战略定位和地域与国家制度化进程的逻辑。该项目的目标是为民间传说研究的跨国史学研究奠定基础（通过学术文章、专著、硕士论文和对b<s:1>国际人类历史百科全书》项目的几项贡献），并将其与学科历史的辩论联系起来。在随后出版的学术研讨会上，“跨国民俗学研究”将不仅作为一项发现，而且作为一种解释来讨论，以重新反映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，并讨论民俗学跨国/区域/文化史研究的可能性和潜力。

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.