Aktuelles aus dem Institut
Sommersemester 2025
Neue Publikationen von Prof. Dr. Birkalan-Gedik
New Publication: Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge by Hande Birkalan-Gedik and Fabiana Dimpflmeier, eds. Open Access. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Birkalan-GedikFabrics. The volume has been made available under a CC BY (International) license thanks to the support of Georg und Franziska Speyer'sche Hochschulstiftung and the Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Description: 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.
New Publication: Birkalan-Gedik, Hande (ed.). 2025. “Traveling Theories and the Making of Post-Disciplinary Histories: Translation, Theorists, Theories and Concepts." Traveling Theory. Special Issue, Journal of Folklore Research 62 (1–2): 1-27. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jfr.00013.
Description: This special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research addresses the role of traveling theory in disciplinary histories. The articles in this special issue stem from the workshop that marked the conclusion of Birkalan-Gedik's DFG Project in 2022, titled “Traveling Theories: Histories of Anthropology and Folklore, 1850–1950," which took place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from May 4 to 6, 2022, with scholars from Israel, Portugal, Serbia, Turkey.
New Publication: Birkalan-Gedik, Hande; Katre Kikas and Konrad Kuhn, Guest Editors, 2025. Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore: Actors – Milieus – Strategies" Cultural Analysis Special Issue. With an introduction by Guest Editors: “Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore: Actors – Milieus – Strategies. An Introduction", pp: 1–9. The complete issue can be accessed here as pdf: Cultural Analysis 2025.
Description: 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 they worked or operated in and present their strategies to overcome or navigate the problems they face.
