Ritualisierte Wurzeln oder auch: Schönheit als Programm. Eine Handlungsofferte der Europäischen Ethnologie
Ethnologia Europaea 28.1998:45-53
##Ritualized roots or: Beauty as a Programme. An offer of action made by European Ethnology
"It´s lovely here, that is the way it could be", this has been the complaint of European ethnology for a good hundred years now: Their books have told plausible stories about the intimate, the personal and finally about everyday life. Their museums have designed worlds that have become models. Only the scholar believes that this message has not been put across because their standards are no longer those of a light-hearted discipline, and the special historiography of the discipline has lost track of the cultural practices of ethnographic action. Proceeding from present considerations concerning the "relationship between everyday-, media- and culture academic" (R. Lindner) and the role of ethnologists as entertainers and "new story-tellers of modernity" (K. Köstlin), the history of domestic ethnography is to be called into question once more from its representational perspectives. Interest is taken in the institutions and authorities as agencies of rooting and ritualising; or, putting it differently, the mainly aesthetically argued process of establishing a discipline of prospective sense## - and ethnically interpreted culture.
Keywords: European ethnology, ethnicity, writing culture, Lindner, R., Köstlin, K., representations
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