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Weaving together a collection of original essays, this book looks at the transnational circulations of people, concepts and practices in anthropology, revealing the many ways that they cross borders. The essays focus on European anthropological traditions and beyond, including broader transnational interactions, to uncover the intricate fabrics of interconnected influences that have shaped anthropology. By presenting these diverse threads, the volume challenges the notion of singular, separated traditions of anthropology and demonstrates how the field has been shaped by a rich plurality of transnational connections, negotiations and entanglements in the past and today.
Hande Birkalan-Gedik is Professor of Folklore, Anthropology and Gender Studies. Currently a Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, she is an executive board member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) and the co-editor of the SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore published by Berghahn Books.
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List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Weaving Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge
Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Part I: Transnational Entanglements: Circulations of Scholars, Knowledge and Concepts
Chapter 1. The Movement of People in Anthropology: Migration and Exile in the Making of the Discipline
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Chapter 2. Eugène Pittard, Bayan Afet, and Others: Actors and Milieus of Anthropological Knowledge and the Formation of the Turkish History Thesis in the 1930s
Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Chapter 3. Academic Circulations and Precarity: Indian Anthropologists and Social Scientists at the British Universities in the Neoliberal Era
Vinicius Kauê Ferreira
Chapter 4. Between Europe, Africa and the Americas: Transatlantic Circulations and Transformations of Syncretism
João Leal
Part II: Pathways and Crossings: Intersecting Practices, Disciplinary Traditions and Boundaries
Chapter 5. Notes at the Margins, Notes from the Margins: Etnografia iItaliana as Lamberto Loria’s Peripheral Palimpsest
Fabiana Dimpflmeier
Chapter 6. Together and Apart: Ethnology and Its Knowledge Milieu(s) in Interwar Vilnius (1922–-1939)
Anna Engelking
Chapter 7. Beyond the Centre-Periphery Frame: The Case of the History of Polish Anthropology
Marcin Brocki
Chapter 8. Unveiling Polyphonies: Elias Petropoulos Strolling the Peripheries of Another Greece
Christos Panagiotopoulos
Part III: Anthropological Knowledge on the Move: Ethnographic and Popular Displays in the Past and Present
Chapter 9. From Displaying to Understanding Human Diversity: Anthropological Knowledge Production and the Professionalization of Anthropology in the Late Nineteenth- Century France
Guido Abbattista
Chapter 10. Attractions and Repulsions: Knowledge Transfer and Appropriation in Ethnographic Shows (Völkerschauen) in Hungary, 1873–1928
Ildikó Sz. Kristóf
Chapter 11. Memetic Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge: Ethnographic Dioramas and Jane Alexander’s ‘African Adventure’ (1999–2002)
Amy Nygaard
Conclusion: From Thread to Fabric: Anthropology and Its Interpreters
Aleksandar Bošković
Afterword: Knowledge Production Through Learning Struggles: Making Sense of Reality, Giving Voice, Building Theory Learning from Others and Learning with Others: Making Sense of Reality, Giving Voice, Building Theory
Susana Narotzky