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Institutskolloquium: „Hierarchies of Power – Evangelical Christianity and Adat Transformation in Indonesian Borneo“ by Dr. phil. Imam Ardhianto, FISIP, Universitas Indonesia

Wann / When: Donnerstag 30.06.2022, 16:15 – 17:45 (CEST); Thursday 30.06.2022, 21:15 – 22:45 WIB

Wo / Where: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/68903348821 (online); Seminarraum T14 (hybrid)

Abstract

This presentation will focus on a shifting socio-religious form of Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia. I argue that the Pentecostal-Evangelical (P/e) mode of religious authority and organization has the capacity to adapt to both the pre-existing hierarchical traditional institutions such as Adat and modern egalitarian social forms. It has been necessary within the context of Kenyah’s experience of religious change as it enabled many actors from various social classes to obtain and perceive religious authority in a specific local and regional political-religious situation while promoting their identity as egalitarian and autonomous modern subjects. In contrast with other studies on the P/e church that emphasize its egalitarian spirit as a factor that supports its impressive growth, the presentation contends that its adaptive structural characteristics have enabled the development of this specific Christian denomination to expand rapidly and play a dominant position in contemporary social life in various parts of the world. It thus provides novel findings in the study of religious change in Southeast Asia by enriching the discussion of historical transformation in the region, and analyzing the articulation of global and regional Christian movements, with the socio-political characteristics of Bornean society.

Dr. phil. Imam Ardhianto

Dr. phil. Imam Ardhianto is senior lecturer and head of the undergraduate program at the Department of Social Anthropology and research fellow of the Asia Research Program of Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.
He graduated at École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France in 2014 and subsequently joined the Institut für Ethnologie at the University of Freiburg where under supervision of Prof. Dr. Judith Schlehe he conducted his doctoral research in the highlands of Borneo. He obtained his PhD in 2019 for his dissertation “Hierarchies of Power: Evangelical Christianity and Adat Transformation in Indonesian Borneo”.

Institutskolloquium: „Akteurskonstellationen und Erwerbsumstände – Provenienzforschung zu Objekten aus Togo und Kamerun in der Ethnologischen Sammlung Göttingen“ von Nzodo Awono M.A. DEA

Wann: Donnerstag, 23.06.2022, 16:15 – 17:45

Wo: VG 2.102

Abstract

Zwischen 1884 und 2018 gelangten etwa 250 Objekte aus Togo und knapp 400 Objekte aus Kamerun in die Ethnologische Sammlung der Universität Göttingen. Der Vortrag präsentiert Ergebnisse einer Provenienzforschung zu diesen Gegenständen. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien in den Regionen der heutigen Nationalstaaten Kamerun und Togo erfolgt zunächst ein Überblick über die in der Sammlung vorhandenen Objekte sowie die untersuchten Erwerbungsumstände. Diese waren äußerst heterogen. Sie umfassten sowohl Forschungs- als auch Strafexpeditionen. Des Weiteren geht der Erhalt der Gegenstände auf die Tätigkeiten von Missionaren, Geschäftsleuten, Händlern, Reisenden und Beamten zurück. In der Forschung konnte die Herkunft von gut 50% der Objekte aus Togo und ca. 70% des Bestands aus Kamerun recherchiert werden. Einige Einzelbeispiele hieraus werden genauer vorgestellt. Neben der historischen Analyse präsentiert der Vortrag auch die Ergebnisse einer Feldstudie, die im November und Dezember 2021 in Kamerun durchgeführt wurde. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden Personen an 15 verschiedenen Orten zur kulturellen Bedeutung der Objekte, zur deutschen Kolonialzeit und zur Frage der Rückgabe interviewt. 

Nzodo Awono M.A. DEA

Nzodo Awono, geboren 1966 in Kamerun, studierte und lehrte Germanisik an der Universität von Yaoundé, Kamerun. Von März 2017 bis Februar 2020 arbeitete er an der Uni Hamburg als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt „Museumssammlungen im Spannungsfeld der sich etablierenden kolonialen Situation – die Afrika-Sammlungen des Übersee-Museums Bremen aus den ehemaligen Kolonien“ mit, das von der Universität Hamburg und dem Übersee-Museums Bremen geleitet wurde und promovierte unter Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer. Seit April 2021 arbeitet er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Ethnologie der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen im Projekt „Die neue Brisanz alter Objekte – Erschließung unbearbeiteter Konvolute in der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen“.

Virtual Roundtable on ‚Before and After Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology‘

On 7 July 2022 from 2-5:30pm, the Royal Anthropological Institute hosts a virtual Round Table that will discuss the edited volume ‚Ethnographers before Malinowski‘ (2022) as well as discuss the centennial of Bronisław Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922). Our curator, Dr. Michael Kraus, who has contributed the chapter ‚Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884-1928), will take part in the event that you can register for here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-PF5mimORAGCuMnukfPG-Q

Programme and participants

13:00-15:00 Part I: Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Introduction by the volume editors:
Frederico Delgado Rosa (Nova University of Lisbon)
Han F. Vermeulen (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Roundtable participants:
Herbert S. Lewis (Wisconsin University)
Barbara Chambers Dawson (Australian Academy of Sciences)
Joanna Cohan Scherer (Smithsonian Institution)
Montgomery McFate (US Naval War College)
Michael Kraus (University of Göttingen)

Discussant:
Andrew Lyons (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo)

Chair:
David Shankland (Director RAI/University College London)

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-16:30 Part II: Anthropology after Argonauts

Roundtable participants:
Adam Kuper (London School of Economics)
David Shankland (Director RAI/University College London)
Sophie Chevalier (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
James Urry (Victoria University of Wellington)
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt (Agnes Scott College)
David Mills (University of Oxford)

Chair:
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)

Three theses to lead the discussion during this Round Table:

1. In the fifty years before the publication of Argonauts of the Western Pacific at least 220 ethnographers produced 365 ethnographic monographs worldwide, but much of their work was side-tracked or neglected by Malinowski and his followers.
2. Malinowski is still celebrated as the inventor of intensive fieldwork in a single society, despite the fact that he had many predecessors in other societies and continents pursuing the same goal.
3. The success of British social anthropology has been partly due to its marginalizing the relative importance of other approaches such as non-functionalist ethnographies, comparative studies and ethnohistory.

Rosa, Frederico Delgado and Han F. Vermeulen (eds.) Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. Foreword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books (EASA Series 44), June 2022. xviii + 522 pp.

More information about the book may be found here:
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RosaOther 

New Publication

In 1922, Bronislaw Malinowski’s book Argonauts of the Western Pacific was published for the first time. The book quickly became a milestone in anthropology and Malinowski was long considered the founder of ethnographic fieldwork. On the occasion of the centenary, the following anthology has just appeared: Ethnographers before Malinowski. Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 (eds. Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen, Berghahn, 540 pages, 29 illus.).

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.

The book includes a chapter by Michael Kraus, curator of the ethnographic collection of Göttingen University, entitled: Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884-1928).

For more details, see: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RosaOther

Institutskolloquium: „Centering climate mobilities: Insights on fear, disposability and citizenship“ by Dr. Ethemcan Turhan

Wann (when): Donnerstag, 16. Juni, 16:15 – 17:45 (Thursday, 16th of June, 04:15 PM – 05:45 PM CEST)

Wo (where): VG 3.101

Abstract

We live in an age of borders, once again.  As commodities, finance flows and ideas move around the clock seamlessly from east to west, from north to south, human bodies seem to be restricted at walls, checkpoints, externalized border controls. Moreover, in the age of climate crisis where histories of capitalist exploitation and colonial plunder rendered certain bodies disposable and vulnerable, the world faces a serious choice between a thorough transformation of the status quo or eco-apartheid. In this intervention, I will built upon three related and intersecting works, arguing that while fear and securitisation of migration and climate have privileged inter-state politics and international discourses, it is crucial to explore how fear is produced, mobilised, and contested in sub-national political arenas. By building on the urban citizenship and climate mobilities literatures, my argument is that there are viable alternatives to the isolationist fortress nation model, which can bring a new dimension to debates concerning climate change and migration.

Dr. Ethemcan Turhan

Dr. Turhan is assistant professor of environmental planning at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. His main interest is political ecology with empirical attention to environmental conflicts, energy infrastructures, social movements, and climate mobilities.