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Ethnology has long been seen as concerned with, as one would nowadays say, 'constructing the nation', thus invariably lending support to the nationalist project. In the nineteenth century, this was a matter of consolidating the emerging nation states primarily, but not only in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. Whereas in the twentieth-century some Western European states have experienced regional nationalism (e.g. in Catalonia or Scotland) as a significant political force that draws on more or less spurious distinctions of Self and Other, in Central Europe – especially in Germany – there has been a greater reluctance to use any discourse of indigeneity, due to its past and present ideological abuse, making appropriate contextualisation of cultural heritage in terms of place and memory, necessary for any nationalist project, rather difficult. Key words: European ethnology, 'salvage ethnology', Cultural anthropology, Self, Other, Third.

This chapter promotes transnational perspective in ethnological research on labour migrants and refugees, and discusses the potential theoretical benefits of the notion of diaspora in an effort to think beyond ethnicity as the main ground of group formation. Using the adjective diasporic instead of the noun diaspora is suggested, as it hints at manifold processes of identity formation and social activities. It keeps the research interest open towards a wide range of experiences of what is often presented as "living away from home", or, from a transnational perspective, as having yet another home(land) – whether actual, remembered, or imagined – as a potential or actual frame of emotional, social or political reference.

This article should serve as an introduction to a relatively new topic in ethnological studies requiring very specific methods as it involves both offline and online research as well as material objects and immaterial practices. How do we embark on an interdisciplinary venture such as this, and be sure to produce qualitative research of high standard? How should gaming mothers best be studied? In what follows we try to answer that question. We also assume that not all of our readers are extensively familiar with games and game culture or have engaged with computer games first-hand or as scientific object of study. We thus begin with a short assessment of its current status as a growing genre, whose image is changing as gamers and game culture become increasingly diversified. We also briefly situate games as an academic subject and outline some of the central concepts focused in the fieldii called Game Studies. Furthermore, understanding the ideological underpinnings of play is vital to understanding the contexts in which games and gaming exist because they constitute some of the fundamental conditions of games research. To explain this, we relate the ambiguous status of game/play to the usage of the term ―the magic circle‖ and of historically ingrained rhetorics [sic] of play. In our survey of the theoretical land, we notice an increasing attention among games researchers to players in addition to the games themselves. We thus assert that ethnologists have a particular methodological edge and a role to fulfill as games research more and more means studying games in relation to gamers, society and political economy and not only the game itself. As part of a huge industry that is a significant economic driver, games take center stage on a global sociocultural and capital market. Educational programs and cross-disciplinary efforts centered on games and gaming grow steadily. Introducing our research project ―Gaming Moms‖ we explain why it is interesting – and now possible and highly apposite – to study gaming from the perspective of culture, the family and the everyday. We give our rendition of how to best study a particular category of players such as mothers and why a marriage between ethnology and the interdisciplinary field of Game Studies is necessary and useful. In doing so, we give specific examples from our ongoing project thus presenting a selection of the various methods we apply in our research. Our examples are chosen around two themes – gaming and time management and representations of mothers in the context of gaming. We conclude with a brief discussion of our findings, having thus proposed an answer to our methodological question, and outline some missing perspectives and future challenges.

24 cm ; The article is focused on the state of sociocultural anthropology and ethnology in Kyrgyzstan. It seeks to map the disciplines' intellectual and institutional history in the sociopolitical context in which it has evolved. The material for the study comes from published and internet sources as well as from a series of interviews with Kyrgyz anthropologists/ethnologists and academics from other countries who have worked in Kyrgyzstan. The article aims at placing the discipline in the sociocultural and political contexts of socialism and postsocialism in Kyrgyzstan. By considering power relations and economic relations as factors of the discipline's development, the article refers to broader debates on the social production of anthropological knowledge ; 24 cm ; Artykuł poświęcony jest etnologii i antropologii społecznokulturowej w Kirgistanie. Celem tekstu jest naszkicowanie intelektualnej i instytucjonalnej mapy dyscypliny w perspektywie historycznej, z uwzględnieniem kontekstu społeczno-politycznego, w którym się rozwijała. Materiały empiryczne pochodzą z publikacji tradycyjnych i internetowych a także z serii wywiadów z kirgiskimi etnologami i antropologami, a także z uczonymi z innych krajów, którzy prowadzą badania antropologiczne w Kirgistanie. W artykule dążę do umieszczenia dyscypliny w kontekście społeczno-kulturowym i politycznym socjalizmu i post-socjalizmu w Kirgistanie. Jako czynniki rozwoju dyscypliny rozpatruję relacje władzy i stosunki gospodarcze, w ten sposób umieszczam ten tekst w szerszych debatach na temat społecznego konstruowania wiedzy antropologicznej

SLOVENE: Matija Murko je bil slovanski filolog v najširšem pomenu — zanimali so ga kulturni pojavi in problemi vsega slovanskega sveta. Poleg tega, da je bil priznan jezikoslovec, je deloval tudi na širokem področju slovanske etnologije. Prav zaradi strokovne širine je njegovo jezikoslovno in etnološko delovanje mogoče ovrednotiti tudi z leksikološkega vidika, čeprav je izraz leksikologija oz. leksikografija v zvezi s svojim delom redko eksplicitno uporabil, npr. v Belićevem zborniku je leta 1937 izšla razprava Glagol knaditi s podnaslovom Prilog leksikografiji i proučavanju narodne epike. Prispevek z leksikološkim izhodiščem skuša Matijo Murka predstaviti predvsem kot jezikoslovca, ki je v svojih razpravah, največkrat z zgledi iz slovanskih ljudskih pesmi, problemsko a) ovrednotil jezikoslovne, predvsem etimološke, dialektološke, pa tudi nekatere pravopisne, razlage/rešitve svojih dveh učiteljev F. Miklošiča in V. Jagića, pa tudi V. Oblaka, J. Kollárja in K. Štreklja, npr. v razpravah Prvi usporeрivaći sanskrita sa slovenskim jezicima (1897), Kollárova vzájemnost slovanská (1893), Eine Jacob Grimm fälschlich zugeschriebene Rezension serbischer Volkslieder (1904); b) predstavil in ovrednotil slovarsko delo V. Karadžića, A. Murka, F. Miklošiča; c) povezoval vprašanja slovenske terminologije in jezikovne zvrstnosti z jezikovno politiko, npr. v člankih Slovenski jezik v Jugoslaviji (1922), Jméno »Jugoslavija« (1929); č) proučeval upravičenost/ustreznost uporabe slovenske in slovanske leksike v slovenskih, hrvaških in srbskih ljudskih pesmih, npr. v člankih Tragom naše narodne epike (1931), Zgodovinski podatki o slovenskih narodnih pesmih (1937); sem sodijo še obravnave, tudi etimološke, slovenske leksike pri predstavljanju t. i. materialne kulture, npr. v članku o slovenski hiši. ENGLISH: Matija Murko was a Slavic philologist in the broadest sense, having interested himself in cultural phenomena and problems of the entire Slavic world. Moreover, he was a ranking linguist active also in the field of Slavic ...

International audience ; Uzbek ethnography is currently attempting to develop in an autonomous fashion by detaching itself from the heritage of a foreign intellectual tradition. The immense corpus constituted by scholars from Russia and then by Soviet ethnologists serves, nevertheless, as a reference-point for contemporary Uzbek ethnologists. These problematic constructions of reality contribute today towards determining the way in which this society regards itself. At the time of Perestroika, Soviet ethnographers engaged in a vigorous debate which resulted in a redefinition of the discipline. Uzbekistan appears not to have participated in these discussions and ethnography remains subject to political control. However, the arrival of numerous international organisations has transformed the scientific landscape. Certain former ethnographers have become « local experts » and are producing a new form of knowledge about their society for international sponsors. These foreign organisations are henceforth participating in the construction of the object but also in the legitimation processes of local ethnographers. This new interaction is not establishing itself in a context of passivity and engenders numerous forms of resistance, indeed of opposition, in the face this new configuration. ; L'ethnographie ouzbèke actuelle tente de se construire de façon autonome en se détachant de l'héritage d'une tradition intellectuelle allogène. L'immense corpus constitué par des savants venus de Russie puis par les ethnologues soviétiques sert néanmoins de référence aux ethnologues ouzbeks contemporains. Ces découpages problématiques de la réalité contribuent aujourd'hui à déterminer le regard que cette société porte sur elle‑même. Au moment de la Perestroïka, les ethnographes soviétiques ont eu un vif débat qui a débouché sur une redéfinition de la discipline. L'Ouzbékistan semble être resté à l'écart de ces discussions et l'ethnographie demeure sous la tutelle du pouvoir politique. Cependant l'arrivée de multiples organisations ...

1897,1901, 1912-13, 1915, include extracts from the 16th, 17th, 28th and 30th annual report of the Bureau, respectively. ; Imprint dates are used to designate issues of lists, 1894-1923. ; 1897,1901, 1912-13, 1915, include extracts from the 16th, 17th, 28th and 30th annual report of the Bureau, respectively. ; Mode of access: Internet.

House of Representatives, 63rd Congress, 2d session, document no. 1114. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Ohio State University, Columbus, which was issued as v. 26, no. 13 of Ohio State University bulletin, and as no. 8 of Contributions in history and political science. ; Bibliography: p. 321-322. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This paper attempts to elucidate how the concept and/or labels of deculturation, disorganization, and disintegration have been employed by anthropologists and Canadian Government researchers in their appraisals of the Chipewyan culture and society, and make some inferences as to why they have been utilized. Assuming the anthropologists described what they observed, why did they see the Chipewyan as they did?

Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound with: Basin-plateau aboriginal sociopolitical groups / by Julian H. Steward. Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1938.

The article brings to light the relationship between politics and social sciences in interwar Poland in its local and transnational dimensions. It explores the beginnings of expertise in ethnology and the evolution of the discipline's tools and methods as closely linked to the political goals of the interwar Polish state, and the post-coup Sanacja [Sanation] regime in particular. Ethnologists carried out fieldwork focused on multiethnic territories, such as Eastern Galicia, which were subjected to international territorial disputes. The collaboration with politicians and the administration – developed mostly in the framework of research institutes – was a source of inspiration and, at the same time, stiff competition between scientific schools. To illustrate some consequences of this collaboration, the article traces an argument over scientific approaches to the 'ethnic question' which involved ethnologists and empirical sociologists, and the connection of this argument to the objectivity principle in science. These different approaches reflect international theoretical and epistemological divisions at the time as much as they show the direct and indirect exchange of ideas within the European scholarship.