Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge

Hande Birkalan-Gedik is Professor of Folklore, Anthropology and Gender Studies. Currently a Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, she is an executive board member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) and the co-editor of the SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore published by Berghahn Books.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on Text and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Weaving Fabrics of Anthropological KnowledgeHande Birkalan-GedikPart I: Transnational Entanglements: Circulations of Scholars, Knowledge and ConceptsChapter 1. The Movement of People in Anthropology: Migration and Exile in the Making of the DisciplineGustavo Lins RibeiroChapter 2. Eugène Pittard, Bayan Afet, and Others: Actors and Milieus of Anthropological Knowledge and the Formation of the Turkish History Thesis in the 1930sHande Birkalan-GedikChapter 3. Academic Circulations and Precarity: Indian Anthropologists and Social Scientists at the British Universities in the Neoliberal EraVinicius Kauê FerreiraChapter 4. Between Europe, Africa and the Americas: Transatlantic Circulations and Transformations of SyncretismJoão LealPart II: Pathways and Crossings: Intersecting Practices, Disciplinary Traditions and BoundariesChapter 5. Notes at the Margins, Notes from the Margins: Etnografia iItaliana as Lamberto Loria’s Peripheral PalimpsestFabiana DimpflmeierChapter 6. Together and Apart: Ethnology and Its Knowledge Milieu(s) in Interwar Vilnius (1922–-1939)Anna EngelkingChapter 7. Beyond the Centre-Periphery Frame: The Case of the History of Polish AnthropologyMarcin BrockiChapter 8. Unveiling Polyphonies: Elias Petropoulos Strolling the Peripheries of Another GreeceChristos PanagiotopoulosPart III: Anthropological Knowledge on the Move: Ethnographic and Popular Displays in the Past and PresentChapter 9. From Displaying to Understanding Human Diversity: Anthropological Knowledge Production and the Professionalization of Anthropology in the Late Nineteenth- Century FranceGuido AbbattistaChapter 10. Attractions and Repulsions: Knowledge Transfer and Appropriation in Ethnographic Shows (Völkerschauen) in Hungary, 1873–1928Ildikó Sz. KristófChapter 11. Memetic Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge: Ethnographic Dioramas and Jane Alexander’s ‘African Adventure’ (1999–2002)Amy NygaardConclusion: From Thread to Fabric: Anthropology and Its InterpretersAleksandar BoškovićAfterword: Knowledge Production Through Learning Struggles: Making Sense of Reality, Giving Voice, Building Theory Learning from Others and Learning with Others: Making Sense of Reality, Giving Voice, Building TheorySusana NarotzkyIndex