Society for Ethnography
The Society for Ethnography e. V. (GfE) is a scientific association with the aim of promoting ethnography in research, teaching and social practice. It was founded in 1990 as a platform for the diverse ethnological departments and fields of practice. In addition to ethnology (ethnology), this includes European ethnology (folklore) and cultural studies in general (cultural studies).
The society is based at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . The GfE fulfills its self- image as a transdisciplinary mediator in the context of conferences and specialist meetings and as co-editor of the ethnographic journal Berliner Blätter . In addition to its members, it also offers students a forum for the exchange and presentation of their own work.
Congresses
- 1993: Identity and Ethnicity
- 1995: The cultures of medicine
- 1997: Sustainability: Alternative agriculture as a cultural-ecological phenomenon
- 1999: Ethnic-cultural difference and education: new challenges and approaches
- 2002: Ethnology and Society - 50 years of ethnographic work in Berlin
- 2004: photo (s) - image (s) - role model (s)
- 2006: Art and Ethnography
- 2008 (April): Representations of Ideas, Realities: Symbolic Representations in the Americas
- 2008 (November): The Language of Things - Cultural Studies Perspectives on Material Culture
- 2010: Ethnographic spatial practices
- 2012: Between object, text, image and performance; Representative practices of ethnographic knowledge