PROJECTS

After an initial three year-period of empirical and regional ethnographic research activities (2001-2003), the Wittgenstein project entered its second phase of production and interdisciplinary interpretation (2004-2006). This implies publication of main research results, and on this basis, striving for broad forms of interdisciplinary dialogues about methodological topics of joint interest in the humanities and the social sciences.
 
Major results of these years of basic research in the Wittgenstein projec then are "translated" into their applied potentials, by means of a follow-up project. This FWF/ASF "Translational Project" leads up to producing the "Handbook Globalisation Face to Face. Anthropological insights for practitioners". The handbook will make key anthropological insights in this topic available to professional practitioners.




EUROPE
European Transformations between East and West
 
(1) Jelena Tošic | Global Rights and Local Contexts: The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
(2) Andrea Strasser-Camagni | Global Rights and Local Contexts: Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
(3) Johanna Riegler | The Transformation of Labor: An East-West Comparison.
(4) Susanne Binder | Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques.
(5) Eva-Maria Knoll | Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
(6) Susanne Binder and Gebhard Fartacek | Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl.

For further reading see:
 
Johanna Riegler (Hg.)
Kulturelle Dynamik der Globalisierung. Ost- und Westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive.
Lokale Identitäten und überlokale Einflüsse, Bd. 1.
Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (2005).
-> Publications
 



MIDDLE EAST
Locality and Piety in Islamic North Africa and West Asia
 
(1) Gebhard Fartacek | Zones of Uncertainty: Ritual and Taboo in the Near East from the Perspectives of Space and Time.
(2) Gebhard Fartacek | Pilgrimage Cities in the Syrian Periphery. An Ethnographic Study of the Cognitive Construction of Sacred Places and their Practical Relevance.
(3) Günther Windhager | From Lemberg to Mecca (1900-1927).The early biography of Leopold Weiss, alias Muhammad Asad.
(4) Barbara Danczul | “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?” Local Strategies for Conflict Resolution of Violence and Revenge in Egypt.
(5) Ines Kohl | Identities between Boundaries: Strategies of Belonging among the Imajeghen (Tuareg) of Libya.
(6) Gudrun Kroner | Beyond the Ties of Home. A Comparison of Female Refugees in the Arabic-Islamic world.
(7) Johann Heiss | Anthropological Interpretations in Southwest Arabia.

For further reading see:
 
Johann Heiss (Hg.)
Veränderung und Stabilität. Normen und Werte in islamischen Gesellschaften.
Lokale Identitäten und überlokale Einflüsse, Bd. 2.
Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (2005).
-> Publications
 



CENTRAL ASIA
Village Identity and State Influence in Buddhist Central Asia
 
(1) Elke Studer | Races for the Gods. Byang thang ’char can rta rgyug.
(2) Hilde Schäffler | Ethnological Knowledge, Objects and Colonial Power.
(3) Guntram Hazod | Historical Maps of Central Tibet.
(4) Walter Probstler | Cultural History of the Buryats in Northeastern Mongolia.
(5) Stephan Kloos | Tibetan Medicine among the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh.

For further reading see:
 
Andre Gingrich und Guntram Hazod (Hg.)
Der Rand und die Mitte. Beiträge zur Sozialanthropologie und Kulturgeschichte Tibets und des Himalaya.
Lokale Identitäten und überlokale Einflüsse, Bd. 3.
Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (2006).
-> Publications
 



THEORY AND METHOD
 
Furthermore a summing-up of the individual studies was taking place, directed by the theoretical-methodical research question: "How do local identities develop and interact unter wider influences?"

In doing so the answers to the central research question are watched concerning their cultural historical as well as their social scientifical dimensions. The core approach is cultural and socio-anthropological, but of course taking part in interdisciplinary dialogs.

(1) Ernst Halbmayer | Interdisciplinary, qualitative and comparative methods.
(2) Fernand Kreff | Basic Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Globalization Debate.
 
  
     
 
 

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Notice: We want to inform you that the research program will come to an end on the 31st of March 2007. Since that time this homepage will not be updated anymore.