Family in the Diaspora

Project Number: G3

Country: Germany

Institutions/Departments: Denkwerk Ethnologie

URL: https://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/forschungsprojekt-archiv

Publication/Material: https://docplayer.org/64192498-Denkwerk-ethnologie-familie-in-der-diaspora.html

Project leader and contact person: Waltraud Kokot wkokot@uni-hamburg.de

Duration: since 2009

Short Description:

The purpose of the project “Family in the Diaspora” is to foster collaboration between human science scholars and teachers and students in upper secondary schools. In this a collaborative project between three upper-level academic secondary schools (gymnasium) in Hamburg and the Ethnology Department at the University of Hamburg, ethnologists train gymnasium students in ethnographic research methods and supervise them in fieldwork. Research topics are family, household, and kinship within different diasporic communities in neighborhoods where the students themselves reside. These topics are well suited for student research because they are close to the students’ own lifeworlds, and they lend themselves well to comparative perspectives on cultural variation. In sum, the project aims at encouraging intercultural exchange by familiarizing participants with core anthropological concepts and methods, and with reflexive analytical perspectives on family, household and kinship. Through engagement with different cultural norms and beliefs Students are expected to critically reflect on their own norms and beliefs.

Implementation: 2009-2011

Target Group(s), age & context: scholars, teachers students, 10-14 years old (secondary level)

Approach/Method: Student research, ethnographic research, fieldwork, comparative research

Type: Supervision, training

Funding: Robert Bosch Stiftung

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