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New publications of members of the working group


New Issue of Cultural Analysis, 23:1 (2025)
Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore
Cultural Analysis cover Guest Editors: Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Katre Kikas, Konrad J. Kuhn
This special issue, Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore: Actors – Milieus – Strategies, presents papers dealing with uncertainties in fieldwork and archives. The issue explores lessons to take from our disciplinary pasts dealing with different uncertainties and their implications for our disciplinary futures. The contributors aim to look at the notion of “uncertainties” from the perspectives of involved actors, exploring the social, political, and disciplinary milieus in which they worked or operated, and presenting their strategies to overcome or navigate the problems they faced. This issue takes up our collegial conversations, having taken place at the SIEF 2023 Conference in Brno, Czech Republic, at the panel organized in the context of the Working Group “Historical Approaches to Cultural Analysis,” which explored different contexts of uncertainties in the disciplinary pasts of ethnology and folklore and their implications for disciplinary futures. You will find more information about the special issue and the series here: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/#series

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 22 (2013)
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures History, Heritage and Place-Making
The issue contains some of the contributions of the panel organized by our
Working Group at the SIEF conference in Lissabon 2011. In the focus of
interest are questions like: How do people use history to shape their lives,
places and 'worlds'? What kind of history do people use? What are the
functions of history?  You will find more information about the special issue
here: journals.berghahnbooks.com/ajec

Historische Anthropologie
Standortbestimmungen im Feld historischer und europäisch ethnologischer
Forschungs- und Wissenspraktiken. Berlin 2012Historische Anthropologie
The issue contains some contributions of members of the working group in
English language. The digital forum was organized by Beate Binder and
Michaela Fenske following an invitation of HSozuKult. In the focus of
interest is the current situation of historical anthropological research
within European Ethnology. URL: edoc.hu-berlin.de/e_histfor/14/

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