Suchergebnisse

Auf dem 2. Frauenkongress der "Volksrepublik Kampuchea" im Jahre 1988 hielt der VRK Präsident Heng Samrin eine Rede, in der er die Frauen zum Aufbau und zur Verteidigung des Landes aufrief. Der Staatschef erklärte die Steigerung der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion, die Ausbreitung des Handels, den Aufbau von Kindergärten und die politische Erziehung im Dienste der "Revolution" zur Aufgabe der Frauen im kambodschanischen Staat. (.)

In this article, I argue that the word 'resource' can be used to denote what is considered to be of high value in a given society. These values may relate either to society as a whole or to its parts. In the former case, resources often acquire the characteristics of the sacred as identified by Émile Durkheim and others. It is here argued that the Durkheimian approach captures the symbolic dimension of the collective sacred but ignores the social effects of people's attempts to obtain access to the highest value. To understand how concrete social forms evolve, one may rather turn to the writings of Arthur Maurice Hocart. His approach draws our attention to values (of 'life') and the social processes deriving from people's engagement with the sacred. To illustrate this approach, an ethnographic example from Odisha, India is provided.

The distinction between supposedly static and formal 'old' approaches to the study of kinship and Janet Carsten's 'new' study of 'relatedness' is examined. Her shift towards a broader understanding of 'kinship' has the positive effect of elucidating a number of 'tropes' for the construction of such relatedness. However, her simultaneous deconstruction of all classic conceptions of kinship neglects central dimensions of social life such as relationship terminologies and marriage rules. In discussing forms of relatedness among the Dongria Kond, a so-called Scheduled Tribe inhabiting the highlands of Orissa (India), I argue that studies of the emotional and practical aspects of kinship should not supersede the formal aspects of rules and classification but rather complement them. In the ethnographic context, all dimensions and expressions of relatedness merit anthropological inquiry. By combining classic approaches and the study of cultural ideas concerning 'kinship' the multiple dimen-sions of relatedness—as encountered in the field—may be conceptionalised.

Zu den Bedingungen der kulturellen Aneignung von Wissen ist zuletzt ein großes öffentliches Interesse entstanden. Ethnologinnen und Ethnologen beschäftigen sich seit Jahrzehnten mit diesem Thema. Sie kennen das Dilemma, dass die eigene Forschungspraxis oft unter Rahmenbedingungen stattfindet, in denen koloniale und andere Formen der Ausbeutung bestehen. Sie wissen aber auch um die Bedeutung und den Wert von "Ethnologie als Alltagsressource". Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Wert ethnologischer Forschungen für die erforschten Gruppen und für das Verständnis der jeweils eigenen Gesellschaft der Forschenden. Mit Beiträgen von Christoph Antweiler, Ursula Bertels, Susanne Fehlings, Wulf Frauen, Roland Hardenberg, Franz Kröger, Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi, Josephus Platenkamp, Almut Schneider, Michael Schönhuth, Matthias Fritz José Schulze, Guido Sprenger, Arne S. Steinforth, Manja Stutzriemer, Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Sandra de Vries, Ingo Wallner und Thomas Widlok.

Resources form the basis of the existence of societies. They can be material and immaterial, and their character is culturally shaped. Resources are usually not used in isolation, but in combination with other resources – as ResourceAssemblages that can change over time as a result of complex relationships. Dealing with such Resource- Assemblages shapes cultural landscapes in which social groups have their base and organise, shape and control these landscapes in a specifi c, culturally formed way according to the existing circumstances. This volume focuses on the current state of research on resource use in the Bronze Age in the south of the Iberian Peninsula with a temporal perspective up to the present time. Short-term and long-term trends of landscape design to facilitate the utilisation of resources will be discussed as well as the interrelation of social dynamics and resource use.