German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology
The German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, short DGSKA (formerly German Anthropological Association eV, shortly DGV) is an association of social and cultural anthropologists and ethnologists and at the Anthropology / Ethnology interested individuals and institutions that promoting science is . The professional society was founded in 1929, but had older predecessors. The DGSKA currently has around 740 members. Its main goal is to promote social and cultural anthropological or ethnological research and teaching and the dissemination of subject-related knowledge to the public.
tasks
The DGSKA has the following tasks in particular:
- Support of social and cultural anthropological or ethnological research and teaching,
- Recommendations and information on subject-related questions,
- Expansion of subject-related scientific facilities,
- Participation in the dissemination of secured social and cultural anthropological or ethnological knowledge and publication of communications and publications,
- Organization of scientific conferences,
- Promotion of cooperation and the exchange of ideas among its members and representation of their interests,
- Maintaining relationships with the neighboring sciences of social and cultural anthropology or ethnology and professional societies abroad.
Board
The company's board of directors consists of
- the chairman Dorle Dracklé (Bremen),
- the deputy chairperson Michi Knecht (Bremen),
- the treasurer Frank Müller (Bremen).
Working and regional groups
The working and regional groups within the DSKA offer a forum for scientific exchange on certain topics, aspects or regions. In 2019 there were the following active groups:
Working groups
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Regional groups
There are regional groups for Africa, Afro America, China, Europe, Indigenous North America, Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, Near and Middle East and North Africa, Oceania, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus as well as for the circumpolar regions and Siberia.
history
The ethnologists are organized in the Society for Ethnology (GV), founded in 1929, which met only once before the end of the war, from October 12 to 14, 1936 in Leipzig. In 1938 it was renamed the German Society for Ethnology (DGV). From the beginning, this association sees itself primarily as a scientific association or a professional association - but not as a professional association. After the war, v. a. Jensen, Termer and Trimborn to revive the DGV. In 1946 the first informal meeting of the specialist representatives took place in Frankfurt / Main, and in 1947 the first regular conference took place in Hamburg. The conferences have been held together with Austrian colleagues since 1965. From 1952 to 1969 the conferences were held alternately by university and museum colleagues whenever possible. In 1967, on the initiative of chairman Hans Rhotert, an amendment to the statutes was passed that enabled students to become full members.
At the 1969 Göttingen conference there was a scandal between the professors and the student members of the subject. As a result, a number of established specialist representatives left the company. The next regular conference could not be held again until 1975 in Coburg. Since then, the society has been meeting every two years and with a steadily growing number of members.
While there was a growing estrangement between museum and university ethnologists between 1969 and approx. 2000, a gradual rapprochement between the two directions has been recorded since the turn of the millennium. The 2009 conference in particular saw a fruitful dialogue between museum and university ethnologists. This was further strengthened by the founding of the AG Museum and the initiative of the Berlin board of directors to deepen the cooperation between university ethnology and ethnological collection institutions (2015-2019).
The society's meetings were repeatedly held in cities in which ethnology was only weakly anchored (e.g. Stuttgart, Freiburg i. Brsg., Coburg, Lübeck) in order to strengthen the external impact of the subject.
At the DGV conference in October 2017 in Berlin, the general assembly decided to change its name to German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA)
Conference locations
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Chairperson
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Publications
- Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE) - founded in 1869. Published in cooperation with the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory
- Communications from the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology
archive
The archive of the DGSKA or DGV is currently located at the Frobenius Institute at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
literature
- Rolf Herzog: The first 20 years of the German Society for Ethnology 1929 to 1949. In: DGV-Mitteilungen 11. 1982, pp. 3–9 ( dgska.de PDF; 312 kB)
- Carola Lentz, Silja Thomas: The German Society for Ethnology. History and current challenges. In: Journal of Ethnology. 140, Issue 2, 2015, JSTOR 24888267 , pp. 225-253 ( dgska.de PDF).
- Hansjörg Dilger , Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Olaf Zenker: Renaming of the German Society for Ethnology eV to German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology eV on October 6, 2017 in Berlin. In: Journal of Ethnology. 142, 2017, pp. 133–140 ( dgska.de PDF).
Web links
- Website of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Video Portal for the history of German Anthropology post 1945
- Website of the DGV conference 2017 in Berlin
- Literature by and about the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnological Association renames itself to "German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology". October 9, 2017, accessed March 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Renaming to DGSKA eV now officially | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde eV Accessed on March 9, 2018 (German).