Ethnological Matterings

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Cliona O'Carroll

Cliona O'Carroll tells about her work in the Cork Folklore Project, a community-based research unit that has collected and archived more than 700 ethnographic interviews. Stories as part of public discourse have consequences, for instance on the willingness to get vaccinated...
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Guha Shankar

For Guha Shankar working in the American Folklife Center is a privilege because it enables him to give voice to people who have not been heard for a long time.
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Luisa Del Giudice

Luisa Del Giudice shares her thoughts on oral history, migration, food justice and hospitality, and pleads to work for change by making ethnological knowledge relevant.
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Hå​kan Jönsson

Hå​kan Jönsson explains how ethnological knowledge teaches us to listen - an important capability when working as intermediair between diverse sectors, for instance as a food consultant.
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Carley Williams

Carley Williams tells about her work as festival organizer and describes how her ethnological skills help her to give people a voice.
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Carlo Cubero

The work of Carlo Cubero is related to the potentials and possibilities of other mediums than text to convey a sense of a social experience
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Aske Juul Lassen

Aske Juul Lassen studies aging as a phenomenon. Staying with complexity is one of the important things he has learned from ethnology.
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Nicolas Le Bigre

Nicolas le Bigre coordinates the Polish-Scottish Song Group, a hub which fosters the exchange of different ways of understanding the world through song.
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Claire Needler

Claire Needler describes herself as a community worker in - amongst others - the field of education. The ethnological toolset has given her a robust framework for her work.
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

In her reflections on how she applied her folklorist training in her work on the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett points to the creativity, adjustability and usefulness of E&F knowledge in various spheres.

Films in this category will be released

within the next few months

The "Ethnological Matterings" series shows a whole gallery of E&F lines of work. In order to raise the awareness of diverse ways in which our fields can be applied, the emphasis is on the diversity of professions in which ethnological and folklorist knowledge and skills come to "matter". Áslaug Einarsdóttir, SIEF’s filmmaker, has produced 14 films during SIEF2019 in Santiago de Compostela and will continue her work during SIEF2021 in Helsinki. From April 2020, SIEF brings one new "ethnological mattering" online each month, for you to watch. We hope you enjoy the short testimonies of your colleagues! Please feel free to share the films with your friends, your colleagues, or your students.