Public Anthropology: Knowledge Practices and Societal Interventions of the Anthropological Disciplines

在学术界之外，社会和文化人类学家以及欧洲民族学家通过博物馆展览、新闻文章或电视采访以及委托研究向更广泛的公众展示他们的研究成果。除了这些传统形式的知识转移之外，数字格式和合作项目正越来越多地与研究小组和“利益相关者”密切合作实施。这种发展在国际上被称为“公共人类学”。与以前的应用或参与方法相比，公共人类学更注重分析和理论化其公共干预，明确反映这些干预的伦理、认识论和政治含义。该网络的中心目标是扩大和深化德国欧洲人类学与非欧洲人类学在公共人类学特定领域的合作。该网络旨在将这一领域建立为一种独特的人类学实践形式，不仅对社会挑战作出反应，而且对这些挑战进行批判性审议和主动形成反应。几十年来，历史上发展起来的体制结构和学科政治阻碍了许多地方不同人类学学科之间更密切的联系。该网络打算通过建立学科的重叠和相似性来改变这种情况。同时，在公众参与中意识到学科的差异和特殊性将为强有力的跨学科合作提供额外的资源。十个网络成员都是欧洲和非欧洲人类学的专业人士。更具体地说，该网络将产生以下结果：它展示了民俗学研究和民族学中公共干预的谱系，以及它们的后续学科关于其认识论和方法论方法的谱系——无论是在德语地区还是在选定的国际背景下。它产生了对人类学学科所面临的各种社会公众的差异化理解，以及通过人类学倡议改造这些公众的手段和逻辑。最后，该网络制定了关于人类学学科如何以联合和有针对性的方式公开干预的策略，例如通过合作方法和网络建设。在所有这些方面，该网络将不断处理学科的体制结构以及研究、教学和促进年轻学者的后果。其目的是在德国建立公共人类学——一个迄今尚未形成具体形态的领域。

Beyond academia, social and cultural anthropologists as well as European ethnologists present their research results to a broader public in museum exhibitions, press articles or TV interviews as well as through commissioned research. In addition to these conventional forms of knowledge transfer, digital formats and cooperative projects are increasingly being implemented in close collaboration with the researched groups and "stakeholders". This development is internationally recognized as "Public Anthropology". More than previous applied or engaged approaches, Public Anthropology is invested in analyzing and theorizing its public interventions, explicitly reflecting on these interventions' ethical, epistemological and political implications.The central goal of this network is to expand and deepen the cooperation between European and Non-European Anthropology in Germany in the specific field of Public Anthropology. The network aims to establish this field as a distinct form of anthropological practice that not only reacts to social challenges, but also critically deliberates and proactively shapes the responses to these challenges. For decades, historically grown institutional structures and disciplinary politics have impeded closer contacts between the different anthropological disciplines at many locations. The network intends to change this by building on the disciplines' overlaps and similarities. At the same time, being aware of the disciplines' differences and specificities in their public engagement will provide an additional resource for robust interdisciplinary cooperation. Ten network members each are professionally based in European and Non-European Anthropology.More specifically, the network will produce the following results: It presents a genealogy of public interventions in Folklore Studies and Ethnology as well as their successor disciplines regarding their epistemological and methodological approaches - both in the German-speaking area and selected international contexts. It generates a differentiated understanding of the various social publics which the anthropological disciplines are confronted with, as well as of the means and logics to transform such publics through anthropological initiatives. Finally, the network develops strategies on how the anthropological disciplines can publicly intervene in a conjoined and targeted manner, for example through collaborative approaches and network building. In all these regards, the network will constantly address the consequences for institutional structures of the disciplines as well as research, teaching and the promotion of young scholars. The aim is to establish Public Anthropology in Germany - a field that has not taken concrete shape so far.