Archäologie und Ethnologie: Welche gemeinsamen Grundlagen?

Archaeology and ethnology: what are the common foundations?

  • Fraglos gibt es viele wichtige gemeinsame Grundlagen in Archäologie und Ethnologie. Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welchen Gemeinsamkeiten welcher Erklärungswert zukommt und wie sie für zukünftige Forschung nutzbar gemacht werden könnten.
  • Anthropology and archaeology have much more in common than might be expected from a rapid look at current research and teaching practices. In particular, they share common foundations in the concept of culture, stemming from the first half of the 19th century. At that time, and in contrast to the usage of the notion in later times, culture was predominantly thought of as a universal: all humans are characterized by the fact of having culture. Only after 1850 was the idea of distinctiveness through cultures promoted by the idea, among others, of the evolution of societies. After 1850 systematic empirical methods were established in both anthropology and archaeology, and the concept of culture as a container was thereby operationalized. Cultures were thought of as distinctive and autonomous units that should be investigated separately. However, with the emergence of globalization, the concept of culture has changed again. Connections between cultures and societies have been pushed into the foreground of research. It is not by accident that both archaeology and anthropology have experienced a real boom during these years. Their roots give them reason to claim to be experts in worldwide and universal connections as well as in the diversity of cultures. The current challenge is whether both disciplines will find a way to make the shared potential explicit and design new research paradigms with reference to it.

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Author:Hans Peter HahnORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-243547
URL:http://www.kritischearchaeologie.de/repositorium/fka/2012_1_05_Hahn.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.6105/journal.fka.2012.1.5
ISSN:2194-346X
Parent Title (German):Forum Kritische Archäologie
Publisher:Freie Univ. Berlin, Inst. für Vorderasiatische Archäologie
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2012/06/12
Year of first Publication:2012
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/06/12
Volume:1
Page Number:5
First Page:35
Last Page:39
HeBIS-PPN:303957425
Institutes:Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Geschichtswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0