Swiss Society for Folklore
The Swiss Folklore Society (SGV) is a specialist society that was founded in 1896 by the Swiss folklorist Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer . Its aim is to research everyday and folk culture in Switzerland in its historical and contemporary manifestations.
The collection and documentation of folk songs has been the focus of interest since the beginning , in 1906 the SGV founded the Swiss Folk Song Archive . In the 1930s and 1940s, folklorists worked on the Society's Atlas of Swiss Folklore . Since the 1960s, the company has concentrated on research into historical living culture and on folklore documentary films .
The company runs its own publishing house and is the publisher of the specialist journal Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde (SAVk) and the correspondence journal Schweizer Volkskunde - Folklore suisse - Folclore svizzero . The current president is Marius Risi.
The farmhouse research archive is part of the company.
literature
- Paul Hugger: On the past and present of folklore in Switzerland. In: ders. (Ed.): Handbuch der Schweizerischen Volkskultur. Volume 1, Basel / Zurich 1992, DNB 930591216 , pp. 15-33.
- Konrad J. Kuhn: «Contemplative action» or a European perspective? Positions and dynamics of folklore cultural studies in Switzerland between 1945 and 1970. In: Johannes Moser, Irene Götz , Moritz Ege (eds.): On the situation of folklore 1945-1970. Orientation of a science in times of the «Cold War». Münster et al. 2015, pp. 213-239.
- Walter Leimgruber : Folklore / Cultural Anthropology. In: Traverse. 19/1, 2012, pp. 119–147.
- Danièle Lenzin: "Folklore vivat, crescat, floreat!" About the beginnings of scientific folklore in Switzerland around 1900. Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-0340-1173-3 .
- Johannes Müske, Sabine Eggmann: “Cultural heritage” in the service of social modernization and setting differentiation. "Folk medicine" and "Folk culture" in the archive of the Swiss Society for Folklore. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore. 110/2, 2014, pp. 148-165.
- Thomas Schärer: Documentary film practices of the Swiss Society for Folklore. In: Edmund Ballhaus (Ed.): Documentary: Schools - Projects - Concepts. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-02864-2 , pp. 265-279.
- Franziska Schürch, Sabine Eggmann, Marius Risi (eds.): United knowledge. Folklore and its social roots. Waxmann, Münster / Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2401-2 .