SIEF

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The Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), or SIEF for short , is a scientific society that was founded in 1964. The main goal of the SIEF is the pronounced networking and intensive promotion of cooperation between scientists from the fields of European ethnology , folklore , folklore studies , cultural anthropology and the related fields of social and ethnosciences.

history

From CIAP to SIEF

The SIEF is the successor organization of the Commission Internationale des Arts et Traditions Populaires (CIAP).

The CIAP established itself after the Folk Art Congress held in Prague in 1929 under the auspices of the League of Nations. Membership at that time referred to national commissions. Even if the CIAP is based on a French initiative, German, Italian, Belgian and Dutch researchers played a decisive role in the first few years. In the politically tense situation of the interwar period and under the influence of the League of Nations, the work of the CIAP turned out to be very difficult. National Socialism and finally the Second World War finally brought the cooperative work of the CIAP to a standstill. After 1945 the CIAP was brought back to life and in 1947 it was formally reorganized. The focus of attention was the role that ethnology and folklore could play in the reconstruction of Europe. Even if these considerations were unsuccessful , the scientific activity of the CIAP during this time was undeniable. The most important innovation was the form of membership, which no longer referred to national commissions, but to individual scientists.

At the Congress in Athens in 1964, a long simmering dispute within the CIAP culminated: The dispute broke out over different paradigms of the CIAP and mainly revolved around the relationship between folklore and ethnology (understood as the analysis of material culture and social life), the Relationship to anthropology and the delimitation of the field (Europe vs. the whole world). Different camps emerged: those scholars who demanded a uniform discipline (European ethnology) versus those who wanted to keep folklore as an independent discipline; those who viewed ethnology or anthropology as a parent discipline compared to those who wanted folklore to be understood as a clearly defined subject; as well as those who saw Europe as a clearly defined field of their subject compared to those who understood the entire world as this field. The “folkists” finally won this dispute and renamed the organization “Societé Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore” - a name that emphasizes the duality of the subject, between ethnology and folklore.

During the division of Europe, the SIEF played an essential role, as it also maintained contact with Eastern European scientists. Accordingly, the company is now trying to intensify these contacts.

Congresses

  • 13th Congress: Göttingen , 2017.
  • 12th Congress: Zagreb , 21. – 25. June 2015: “Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st Century ".
  • 11th Congress: Tartu , June 30th – 4th July 2013: "Circulation"
  • 10th Congress: Lisbon , 18. – 21. April 2011: "People make places"
  • 9th Congress: Derry , 16. – 20. June 2008: "Transcending 'European Heritages': Liberating the Ethnological Imagination"
  • 8th Congress: Marseille , 26. – 30. April 2004: “Among Others. Conflict and Encounters in Europe and the Mediterranean "
  • 7th Congress: Budapest , November 23-28 April 2001: "Times, Places, Passages"
  • 6th Congress: Amsterdam , 20. – 25. April 1998: “Roots and Rituals. Managing Ethnicity "
  • 5th Congress: Vienna , 12. – 16. September 1994: "Ethnicization of Culture"
  • 4th Congress: Bergen 99, 19. – 23. June 1990: "Tradition and Modernization"
  • 3rd Congress: Zurich , 8–12 May April 1987: "The Life cycle"
  • 2nd Congress: Suzdal , September 30th – 6th October 1982: open issue
  • 1st Congress: Paris , 24.-28. August 1971: "Ethnologie européenne"

organization

The SIEF is based at the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam. At the last general assembly on July 2, 2013 in Tartu , the board was newly elected:

Working groups

In the course of the last decades, numerous working groups / commissions have formed within the framework of the SIEF, which in turn hold their own congresses and workshops and in some cases publish their own results. There are currently 9 working groups active in the SIEF.

  • Archives
  • Ethnology of Religion
  • Space-lore and place-lore
  • Food Research
  • The Ritual Year
  • Cultural Heritage and Property
  • Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis
  • Place Wisdom
  • Young Scholar's Working Group

Web links

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