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E-book New Horizons for the Alps

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We started our respective field research in 2018 and we were somehow surprised not to find an international anthropological community in which researchers exchange and debate ideas in specific journals, meet at conferenc-es and hold working groups on Alpine matters. At the same time, the term “Alpine anthropology” is widely used (Kezich, 2022; Zanini and Viazzo, 2022) and there exists something like an understanding of Alpine common-alities. Between 1991 and 2007, there had been a very active Italian working group led by Giovanni Kezich and Pier Paolo Viazzo, the Permanent Seminar on Alpine Ethnography (Seminario Permanente di Entografia Alpina) in San Michele all’Adige (Trentino) discussing Alpine particularities with geogra-phers and historians. However, in 2018, what we missed most were recent ethnographies to fall back on, and this became a methodological and analyt-ical challenge; due to the lack of a scholarly community concerned with this area, we missed occasions of communicative exchanges, suggestions, oppor-tunities for orientation and criticism. Overall, this impression became rath-er more pronounced, and we realized that anthropological approaches were often lodged in interdisciplinary projects, some of them focusing on finding solutions in terms of concrete applications for this mountain area. When em-barking on this volume, we therefore wanted to gather anthropological and ethnographic studies focussing on the region to get a sense of the present state-of-the art.The present volume follows Malinowski and the Alps (Tauber and Zinn, 2023), where another phenomenon of absence had become the topic of discus-sion. Whilst the first volume features authors dealing with an anthropologi-cal and historical search for traces of a Tyrolean Malinowski, who had lived with his family in Oberbozen South Tyrol in the 1920s and 30s, this second volume is to a certain extent committed to ethnography in the original Ma-linowskian sense, accepting that Malinowski himself “had never made the Alps an object of study, and therefore never had an impact on the Alpine anthropology” (ibid., p. 1). The contributors assembled in the present pub-lication have been invited to focus on ethnography as the key discipline for anthropological analysis, to revisit their own, older data, present more recent research to explore new ethnographic possibilities and openings, and arive at a sense of what is needed for future research.

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301 BOS n

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Italy : bu,press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

310 hlm

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English

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9788860461988

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301

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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