Comparative Approaches to Visions of Community

The aims of the first VISCOM conference were to compare different methods employed in the study of community to address new methodological perspectives for the analysis of categories of identification and belonging, the conditions and processes of the making of communities across large cultural and geo-political fields. At the same time, this exchange was meant to provide thorough reflections on the process of comparative research itself. This contribution sets out to discuss the diversity and creative tension of these methodological approaches before proceeding to outline how they may contribute to future collaboration both within the VISCOM project and beyond in interdisciplinary and, eventually, in transdisciplinary collaboration between historians and socio-anthropologists. The text thus focuses on the methodological tools and the very practical research processes addressed at the conference and in the case studies brought together in this thematic issue. It will specifically address the challenge to develop comparable, but contextually differentiated approaches to different types and amounts of medieval source material across time and space, viewing the methodological and conceptual framework of the project and the contributions of this issue as a toolbox. I will thus take up the claims of several contributors to more thoroughly contextualise the very conceptual notions underlying our research (such as identity, ethnicity and community) and argue in favour of a less "loaded" and more flexible conceptual vocabulary developed in close relation with the source material to cope with the high diversity of sources and methodological approaches

Aesthetics · Conceptual framework · Data science · Diversity (politics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Management science · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Toolbox · Vision · Vocabulary · Anthropology · Computer Science · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

• Medieval Eurasian Communities by Comparison

  Open Access•Andre Gingrich•Meanings of Community across…•2016

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• Introduction

  Open Access•Rutger Kramer•Meanings of Community across…•2016

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• Community, society and memory in late medieval nunneries

  Gabriela Signori•History and Anthropology•2021

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• Competing Visions of Community in Mediaeval Zaydī Yemen

  Johann Heiß, Eirik Hovden•Journal of the Economic and…•2016

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• The Symbolic Construction of Community

  Anthony P Cohen•2013

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• Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe

  Open Access•Peter Burke•Languages and Communities in…•2004

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• Is Science Multicultural?

  Sandra G Harding, Sandra Harding•Is science multicultural?•1998

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• Ethnic groups and boundaries

  Fredrik Barth•Ethnic groups and boundaries•1969

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• The ethnic origins of nations

  Anthony D Smith•The ethnic origins of nations•1986

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• Introduction — Strategies of Identification

  Walter Pohl•Strategies of Identification•2013

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• Telling the Difference

  Walter Pohl•Strategies of Distinction•1998

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• From the “Good Tradition” to Religion on Some Basic Aspects of Religious Conversion in Early Medieval Tibet and the Comparative Central Eurasian Context

  Guntram Hazod•History and Anthropology•2015

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• The Interpretation of Cultures

  Clifford Geertz•The Interpretation of Cultures•2000

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• Imagined communities

  Benedict Anderson•Imagined communities•1991

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• Fear

  Open Access•Jan Plamper•Slavic Review•2009

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• Culture through Time

  R F Berkhofer, Robert Berkhofer et al.•Ethnohistory•1993

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• The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

  Peter Winch, Peter J Winch•Idea of a Social Science and Its…•2015

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• Comparing Communities-The Limits of Typology

  Walter Pohl•History and Anthropology•2015

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• Power and Ethnicity History and Anthropology

  Patrick Geary, Patrick J Geary•History and Anthropology•2015

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• Pars Pro TotoObservation

  Daniel Varisco, Daniel Martin Varisco•History and Anthropology•2015

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• Lex alterius

  John Tolan•History and Anthropology•2015

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• Multiple Histories

  Andre Gingrich•History and Anthropology•2015

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