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Yezidism in Europe
Yezidism is a minority religion that is largely based on tradition rather than scripture. In the homelands - Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Transcaucasia - its world-view is closely connected with local culture, and most easily understood in that context. From the 1960s onwards, an increasing number of Yezidis from Turkey, Iraq and Syria were forced to migrate to Western Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union many Yezidis from Armenia and Georgia moved to Russia and the Ukraine. This work addresses the question of differences in perception of the religion between Yezidi migrants who grew up in the homeland and those who were mainly socialised in the Diaspora. It is based on extensive qualitative research among Yezidis of different generations in Germany and Russia.
Memory and Methodology
The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This timely collection provides a forum for demonstrating how various disciplines are addressing these concerns. Is an historian's approach to memory similar to that of theorists in media or cultural studies, or are their understandings in fact contradictory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate in which contexts? What are the relations between individual and social memory? Why should we study memory and how can it enrich other research? What does its study bring to our understanding of subjecti...
Tourism Imaginaries
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology’s grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.
The Icon Curtain
The Iron Curtain did not exist. Instead, it comprised multiple regional segments, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries. The first cultural studies account of the border's landscape, 'The Icon Curtain' straddles the Bohemian Forest to uncover a far-reaching genealogy of one such section and debunk the stereotype of the unprecedented mid-twentieth-century partition. There, between the 1950s and 1980s, West German locals and Sudeten German expellee newcomers shaped a civilian rampart, the 'prayer wall'.
The Learning Region
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Das Alltagsmedium Blatt
Das Medium Blatt, obwohl jedem bekannt und tagtäglich genutzt, wurde von der Medienforschung bislang fast gänzlich vernachlässigt. In zwei verschiedenen, einander ergänzenden Blöcken werden hier zahlreiche Pilotstudien mit neuen Perspektiven und Befunden vorgestellt. Versionen des Blatts im Alltag umfassen dabei u.a. Eintrittskarten, Packungsbeilagen von Medikamenten, Kochrezepte, Spielkarten, Flugblätter oder Werbeblätter als Zeitungsbeilagen. Bedeutung und Funktionen des Blatts unterscheiden sich aber auch nach seiner Verwendung in verschiedenen kommunikativen Binnenräumen, beispielsweise der Schule, Kultureinrichtungen wie Bücherei oder Kulturinstitut sowie kirchlichen Räumen - bis hin zum Einkaufszettel oder der Nutzung des Blatts als Schreibmedium zur Bewältigung des Alltags. Ein einführender Forschungsbericht und ein abschließender Abriss zur Geschichte des Mediums Blatt von den Anfängen bis heute runden den facettenreichen, innovativen Band ab.
