Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Museology
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
A rural region as cultural capital? Geographische Rundschau, 2024
From search movements in the Alpine region: Knowledge, policies and the cultural-anthropological view Kuhn, Konrad Schweizerisches Archiv Fur Volkskunde, 2023 Ausgehend von den Stärken und Zugriffen einer gesellschaftsanalytisch ausgerichteten\nKulturanthropologie fokussiert dieser Beitrag die historische Entwicklung der Beschäftigung\nmit «den Walsern». Dieses «Bergvolk» wird als verteilt über den Alpenraum beschrieben\nund hat seit 1850 vielfältige wissenschaftliche und populäre Aufmerksamkeit\nerfahren. Dabei lassen sich unterschiedliche Wissensformate, politische Konjunkturen\nund lebensweltliche Aneignungen feststellen, die es möglich machen, nach\nden gegenwärtigen Aktualisierungen entsprechenden Wissens und nach der Aufgabe\nkulturanthropologischen Denkens zu fragen.
Instructions aux auteur-e-s Schweizerisches Archiv Fur Volkskunde, 2023
Continuities of thinking, austrification and criticism of modernization. Adolf Helbok and folklore studies in Austria after 1945 Osterreichische Zeitschrift Fur Volkskunde, 2019
Culture as political argument: Collection policies and the production of knowledge by swiss volkskunde scholars Ff Communications, 2018
The museum as place of research and practice in cultural studies: Introduction Schweizerisches Archiv Fur Volkskunde, 2017
Europeanization as strategy: Disciplinary shifts in Switzerland and the formation of european ethnology Konrad J. Kuhn Ethnologia Europaea, 2015 eThnologia euroPaea 45:1 European ethnology has never been a coherent, conclusive discipline but has rather been a loose network of interests, topics and collaborations. This had already been the case as numerous institutions such as the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) and the journal Ethnologia Europaea were founded. Within these institutions, a small group of “Europeanists” that formed in the middle of the 1960s played an important role. A key member of this group was the Swiss-born Arnold Niederer (1914–1998). Not only was Niederer one of the founders of Ethnologia Europaea in 1966/67, he was also significantly involved in the formation of the loose network of actors who helped promote, share and establish European ethnology as a new discipline. Early on, Niederer saw himself as a European ethnologist; his comparative cross-cultural interests were present already well before the institutionalization of the corresponding research context. Thus, he is one of the pioneers of the discipline; a comparative perspective on the Alpine region and research on forms of cooperative work organized at the community level kindled his interest in European issues. Niederer was one of the researchers, together with Sigurd Erixon, Jorge Dias and others, who wanted to overcome divisions between the different national and local ethnologies in Europe and thus contributed to the network of European ethnology. In this process, they also reflected theoretically on the common – as well as distinct – characteristics of European ethnology across Europe. This paper examines the epistemological and institutional activities in the field of Volkskunde/ folklore studies in Switzerland leading to the discipline’s reformation as “European ethnology”. Drawing on archival materials, the article takes Arnold Niederer (1914–1998) as a starting point by showing how Niederer, his networks and research contexts were involved in the formation of the loose alliance of interests that were subsequently institutionalized. This paper traces the new perception of the discipline “European ethnology” as it draws on early transnational contacts of Swiss Folklore Studies in order to overcome the crisis in which Volkskunde found itself in the 1960s. Europeanization and an orientation toward the present were strategies to stabilize the academic discipline but also to establish the discipline in the public sphere.
Liberation struggle and humanitarian aid: International solidarity movements and the "third world" in the 1960s Third World in the Global 1960s, 2012
Epiphanias cake: A tradition of the present among ritual function, archaizing and commerce Schweizerisches Archiv Fur Volkskunde, 2009
