Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology

Forum der Ausgabe 1/2024

2024-05-29

Forum der Ausgabe 1/2024

dringend!? Zeithorizonte kulturwissenschaftlicher Sprachfähigkeit

Timo Heimerdinger — 2024-05-29

Auf Maß – Vermittlungsarbeit zwischen massenmedialer Anforderung und akademischen Standards

Lisa Maubach — 2024-05-29

Flashback? Temporalität als konditionierendes Kriterium musealen Arbeitens

Brigitte Heck — 2024-05-29

Dringlichkeiten, Möglichkeiten, Handlungsweisen

Birgit Johler — 2024-05-29

Aus dem akademischen Alltag der Dringlichkeit

Alexandra Schwell — 2024-05-29

Editorial

Thomas Thiemeyer — 2024-05-29

Berichte der Ausgabe 1/2024

2024-05-29

Berichte der Ausgabe 1/2024

Prof. Dr. Olaf Bockhorn 1942–2023

Herbert Nikitsch — 2024-05-29

Prof. Dr. Rolf Wilhelm Brednich 1935–2023

Sabine Wienker-Piepho — 2024-05-29

Lager. Inszenierung und Musealisierung

Marketa Spiritova — 2024-05-29

Analysen des Alltags. Komplexität, Konjunktur, Krise

Laura Brammsen — 2024-05-29

Mapping Gender Struggles: Geschlecht als Konfliktfeld sozialer Bewegungen der Gegenwart

Manuel Bolz — 2024-05-29

Artikel der Ausgabe 1/2024

2024-05-29

Artikel der Ausgabe 1/2024

Kulturen der künstlichen Intelligenz

Christoph Bareither — 2024-05-29

Artificial Intelligence is one of the keywords of our time, and AI systems are currently initiating numerous transformations in various areas of everyday life. How can cultural anthropology and “Empirische Kulturwissenschaft” at the interface with digital anthropology contribute to understanding these transformations and to shap?ing social and cultural negotiation processes around AI? To answer this question, this article develops the concept of AI assemblages, which aims to illuminate the dynamics of sociotechnical relations between human and more-than-human actors or compo?nents surrounding AI systems. Assemblage thinking allows to reflect upon and describe numerous “small” transformations of everyday life connected to AI without uncritically reproducing grand narratives of sociotechnical change and upheaval. On a more gen?eral level, analyzing AI assemblages is a way to study cultures of AI, that is, to study “a whole way of life” (Williams) in which routines, relationships, and cultural orders are increasingly shaped by AI systems. Three examples illustrate this perspective: AI as?semblages in memory culture (virtual survivor testimonies in Holocaust remembrance), in popular culture (social media and their algorithms), and in academic culture (gen?erative AI in academic research and teaching).

Cultures of Artificial Intelligence

Christoph Bareither — 2024-08-05

Artificial Intelligence is one of the keywords of our time, and AI systems are currently initiating numerous transformations in various areas of everyday life. How can cultural anthropology at the interface with digital anthropology contribute to understanding these transformations and to shaping social and cultural negotiation processes around AI? To answer this question, this article develops the concept of AI assemblages, which aims to illuminate the dynamics of sociotechnical relations between human and more-than-human actors or elements surrounding AI systems. Assemblage thinking allows to reflect upon and describe numerous ‘small’ transformations of everyday life connected to AI without uncritically reproducing grand narratives of sociotechnical change and upheaval. On a more general level, analyzing AI assemblages is a way to study cultures of AI, that is, to study “a whole way of life” (Williams) in which routines, relationships, and cultural orders are increasingly shaped by AI systems. Three examples illustrate this perspective: AI assemblages in memory culture (virtual survivor testimonies in Holocaust remembrance), in popular culture (social media and their algorithms), and in academic culture (generative AI in academic research and teaching).

Das Digitale des Alltäglichen und das Alltägliche des Digitalen

Roundtable — 2024-05-29

Die Kommission Digitale Anthropologie hatte im Vorfeld des Kongresses ihre Mitglieder zu einem Beitrag aufgerufen und zusätzlich gezielt in der Kommission Mitglieder angesprochen, die argumentationsstarke Beiträge zum Thema liefern könnten. Dem Aufruf kamen Katrin Amelang, Christoph Bareither, Urmila Goel, Gertraud Koch, Sarah Thanner und Libuše Vep?rek nach. An der Diskussion beteiligten sich aus dem Plenum mit spontanen Beiträgen Ina Dietzsch, Lina Franken, Christine Hämmerling, Matthias Harbeck, Maren Heibges, Timo Heimerdinger, Sabine Imeri, Martina Klausner, Martina Röthl, Estrid Sørensen und Eberhard Wolff. Die Einführung und Moderation wurden von Anne Dippel übernommen.

Mix-a-lot: Impulse der Mixed-Methods-Forschung für die Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Maren Heibges — 2024-05-29

“Mixed Methods” refers to the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods within a research design. The mixed methods approach is shaped by a research community which is primarily active in the USA. How can anthropologists and ethnologists, who want or need to work across methodological boundaries – such as in interdisciplinary projects, when they intend to generalize their research findings more broadly, or when quantitative findings form the starting point of their qualitative investigations – benefit from the methodological impulses of the Mixed Methods community? My contribution examines the conceptual premises of mixed methods research, presents the three typical mixed methods research designs (convergent design, explanatory sequential design, exploratory sequential design), discusses new visual approaches for analyzing and presenting heterogeneous research data, and identifies as impulses for anthropologies and cultural studies: 1) that the mixed methods discourse can be used for a multi-layered method explication, even within purely qualitative research, 2) that the Mixed Methods community provides a specific vocabulary for anthropologists and ethnologists to precisely articulate where they can most effectively apply their methodological expertise in a heterogeneous co-laboration.

Gegen die Essenzialisierung

Markus Tauschek — 2024-05-29

For some years now, certain cultural forms of expression as well as certain practices, artefacts or phenomena have been problematized and scandalized as cultural appropriation. The central thesis of this contribution is that the accusation of cultural appropriation is based on essentializing and therefore problematic concepts of culture. This accusation assumes that the phenomena or things labelled with the concept of cultural appropriation belong exclusively to certain groups of actors, whereas others use them in an illegitimate manner. The article focuses on the question of how new forms of (re)essentialization of culture are mobilized and how categorical boundaries are drawn in processes of ‘othering’ between a homogenized ‘we’ and clearly separated and equally homogenized ‘others’, based on the argument of a supposed cultural differ?ence. Cultural appropriation is deconstructed as a powerful slogan concept. The article analyzes not only the social discourses on cultural appropriation, but also the academic discourse that sometimes confirms or legitimizes the accusation of cultural appropriation. Overarching, the article discusses the question of how culture is instrumentalized today as a category of difference and how sovereignty of interpretation is articulated with regard to the mechanisms of cultural (re-)production and transmission.

Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 1/2024

2024-05-29

Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 1/2024

Hande Birkalan-Gedik / Cristiane Cantauw / Jan Carstensen / Friedemann Schmoll / Elisabeth Timm (Hrsg.): Detmold, September 1969. Die Arbeitstagung der dgv im Rückblick. International and comparative perspectives on the worlds and words of Volkskunde

Dieter Kramer — 2024-05-29

Sharon Macdonald (Hrsg.): Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage. A Berlin Ethnography

Thomas Thiemeyer — 2024-05-29

Jürgen Bärsch / Christel Köhle-Hezinger / Klaus Raschzok (Hrsg.): Heilige Spiele. Formen und Gestalten des spielerischen Umgangs mit dem Sakralen

Gunther Hirschfelder — 2024-05-29

Helen Ahner: Planetarien. Wunder der Technik – Techniken des Wunderns

Anne Dippel — 2024-05-29

Dagmar Konrad: Missionskinder. Migration und Trennung in Missionarsfamilien der Basler Mission des 19. Jahrhunderts

Beate Plugge — 2024-05-29

Lubomír Suva: Der tschechische Himmel liegt in der Hölle. Märchen von Božena Nemcová und den Brüdern Grimm im Vergleich

Heidrun Alzheimer — 2024-05-29

Julia Büchel: Repräsentation – Partizipation – Zugänglichkeit. Theorie und Praxis gesellschaftlicher Einbindung in Museen und Ausstellungen

Janette Helm — 2024-05-29

Jenny Hagemann: Vererbte Regionen. Aneignungen und Nutzungen von regionalem Heritage im Wendland und in der Lausitz im Vergleich

Michelle Orth — 2024-05-29

Cornelia Kühn (Hrsg.): Gemeinwohlorientiert, ökologisch, sozial. Aushandlungen um alternative Wirtschaftspraktiken in der Zivilgesellschaft

Elisa Stowe — 2024-05-29

Melanie Haller / Traute Helmers / Stefanie Mallon (Hrsg.): Der Tod und das Ding. Textile Materialitäten im Kontext von Vergänglichkeit

Melanie Burgemeister — 2024-05-29

Julia Schulte to Bühne (Hrsg.): Charly für ’ne Mark. Eine Disco im Museum

Markus Rodenberg — 2024-05-29

Brücke-Museum / Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin / Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin / Daniela Bystron / Anne Fäser (Hrsg.): Das Museum dekolonisieren? Kolonialität und museale Praxis in Berlin

Tim Schaffarczik — 2024-05-29

Thomas Kühn (Hrsg.): Dinge. Bilder. Menschen. Beiträge zur Volkskunde, Geschichte und Museumsarbeit in Hagenow, Mecklenburg und darüber hinaus. Festschrift für Henry Gawlick zum 65. Geburtstag

Wolf Karge — 2024-05-29

Monika Kania-Schütz (Hrsg.): Die Deutsche Alpenstraße. Deutschlands älteste Ferienroute

Verena Plath — 2024-05-29

Ariane Karbe: Museum Exhibitions and Suspense. The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

Julia Marzoner — 2024-05-29