Exploring Ethnological Knowledges

The range of possible formats results in part from ethnologists' interaction with different publics, whose constituents are often very interested in the political, social, and economic "surplus" of ethnological knowledges. Because of this special position, ethnology is an excellent field in which to explore questions raised by the new history of knowledge and sociological or anthropological investigation of knowledge production (e.g., Biagioli 1999; Daum 2002; Felt 2000; Felt et al. 1995; Fried 2003; Nowotny et al. 2004). [...]Walter Leimgruber (University of Basel) focuses on the idea of intangible culture. First developed by ethnologists and researchers in neighboring disciplines, today the concept of intangible heritage is at the forefront of political debates.