Cargo (Journal of Ethnology)

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Cargo - Journal of Ethnology
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description student science magazine
Area of ​​Expertise ethnology
language German
First edition 1981
Frequency of publication half-yearly
Sold edition 1000 copies
Editor-in-chief ---
Web link www.cargo-zeitschrift.de
ISSN 0947-9783

Cargo - Zeitschrift für Ethnologie is a student-edited journal . Since 2012 the editorial team has been led by students from Bayreuth.

format

CARGO sees itself as a platform by and for students of ethnology . The editors only check the articles sent in for content, spelling and grammar. In this way, the magazine should be the mouthpiece of the students in the subject. The contributions vary greatly from edition to edition, but always have different content-related discussions and details on the study conditions of the institutes on the topic. At the same time, the CARGO has been used again and again by teachers in recent years to leave the classic conventions of scientific research and to try out other types of text.

history

With the organization of the so-called “ethno-meeting” around 1979, a relatively free space was created in which ethnological topics could be discussed that received little attention in the prevailing “ ethnology ”. During the 1980s and 1990s, a different student body organized this one-week meeting, thus ensuring that discussions about ethnology are also possible outside of the institutes and specialist congresses.

From these meetings is early 1980, the project cargo - Journal of Ethnology emerged to a network and forum of information and opinions of Ethnology interested to build at the various institutions. The first issue appeared in Berlin. This was followed by editorial offices in Tübingen, Mainz, Cologne, Vienna, Hamburg, Göttingen, Freiburg / Br., Munich, Marburg, Frankfurt / M. and Heidelberg.

The respective editions thus become the cultural memory of the subject. They reflect the perspectives of the students at their institutes and their career prospects as anthropologists. Aspects of cultural technology such as 'layout and printing' also illustrate these aspects. Issue 15, for example, was created entirely on the PC, while number 20 appeared in a format that contradicted any library shelf standard. With issue 24, CARGO was no longer published by students for the first time, but by old members of the editorial team who had meanwhile completed their studies. This editorial team from Göttingen published three issues.

Only after a long break did the number 27 follow in April 2007. This revitalized the project. The magazine was rediscovered by students. In a new format, there has now been continuous work on further issues and the distribution of the magazine throughout the German-speaking region.

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