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

冷战时期欧洲民族学的国际化进程欧洲民族学史学有两个显著的趋同特征：第一，对欧洲民族学国家起源的关注在很大程度上忽视了跨国学术纠缠和转移。其次，这种方法论上的民族主义掩盖了冷战对该学科国际发展的持久影响，冷战是一个极具影响力的政治背景。因此，迫切需要重新评估这门学科在冷战期间发展并继续影响今天欧洲民族学的条件。这一学术空白是拟议研究项目的重点。分析东西德民族是获得1945年后欧洲民族学国际化进程重要知识的一个极好的研究对象，因为它是冷战时期意识形态体系竞争的一个重要交叉点。作为一个代表性的例子，拟议的项目将侧重于在1945年至1970年之间发展跨国奖学金。它将揭示概念上的东西方偏见对欧洲民族学跨国活动在理论生产过程中的影响，以及民族学和人类学概念的标准化。该项目将详细研究西方和东方取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，我们将研究知识生产的具体实践和网络、组织和机构的相互作用的社会政治决定。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。

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.