François Rüegg Bücher

Research by social scientists on multicultural and multilingual post-Soviet societies is manifold. However, there rarely exists a dialogue between academic fields, traditions and ideologies. This book critically reunites different academic generations and traditions, different disciplines and different geographical and cultural backgrounds by keeping the plurality of the approaches. The contributions discuss the roles of ideologies, education, and ethnic, linguistic and religious identities in the post-Soviet nation- building processes and reflect on the impacts of the social sciences and humanities studying these processes. Thereby the case-studies show continuities and discontinuities in the ideological and political aspects of nation-building and identity management in post-Soviet societies.

This volume presents research on intercultural relations in South-Eastern Europe, including the way they are imagined and managed in different social and historical contexts. After an introductory critique of the concepts of interculturalism and citizenship, the situation in Romania is investigated. The second part deals with a series of in-depth comparative studies, namely on the Roma minorities in Romania and Bulgaria. But it also considers the case of the Pomaks in Bulgaria, of Russians living in parallel societies in the Baltic States and the recent evolution of interculturalism in the region.

Der Steyler Missionar und Ethnologieprofessor Georg Höltker SVD (1895–1976) war ein unermüdlicher Forscher und Sammler. Er hinterließ wichtige Kollektionen von ethnographischen Objekten, Fotografien und Studien vor allem aus Neuguinea, die in Museen in Basel, Neuchâtel und Wien sowie im Haus Völker und Kulturen (Sankt Augustin) und an der Universität Fribourg zugänglich sind. Im Oktober 2016 fand an der Universität Fribourg (Schweiz) ein Kolloquium statt, das sich der Frage von „Ethnographie und Mission“ widmete. Junge Forscher und Forscherinnen kehrten zu einem Thema zurück, das in letzter Zeit vor allem unter geschichtlicher Perspektive bearbeitet wurde, und behandeln in den Beiträgen dieses Bandes das reiche Erbe, das Georg Höltker hinterlassen hat und das eine Verständnisbrücke zu verschiedenen Kulturen Neuguineas bildet.

The articles collected here trace the intellectual journey of Christian Giordano, head of the Social Anthropology Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reader will be transported to places Giordano has explored, loved, or merely visited, from Sicily to Malaysia, from Switzerland to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each article illustrates a facet of his work. The journey starts with biographical sketches and continues through different fields of Political Anthropology (Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Rural Studies, Trust, Postcolonial Studies, Honour). It ends with reflections on the use and abuse of Anthropology.