German Volkskunde and Cultural Anthropology

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  • ドイツの民俗学と文化人類学
  • ドイツ ノ ミンゾクガク ト ブンカ ジンルイガク

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In order to introduce German Volkskunde as a neighboring discipline to cultural anthropology, I try to shed light on the historical process of this discipline at research institutes in German universities, especially after World War II. German Volkskunde had established its position as an academic discipline, with a chair of its own at a university, under the National Socialist regime, and ideologically had played no small part in supporting Nazism. It naturally follows that since the end of the war German scholars have had to keenly reflect on and firmly criticize the discipline’s past. They have begun to define and redefine theoretically their conceptions of the discipline, as well as its boundaries with related disciplines. They have brought many old concepts of Volkskunde to an end and sought to turn the discipline into an applied cultural science, concerned with the analysis of both the past and present. In this process German Volkskunde has come to call itself cultural anthropology. This article argues this process with special reference to the University of Tübingen, and considers the current methodological orientation of professional education referring to the Humboldt University of Berlin. I discuss in conclusion the developing relationship between German Volkskunde and cultural anthropology.

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