Journal for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis: Issue 2/2021, 6. Volume Follow the tracks

The search for tracks as a knowledge practice represents a fundamental methodology of European ethnology. Developed on the basis of an empirical study on music collecting, the text embarks on a “search for tracks” in ethnographic working disciplines. As an example, it is proposed to understand the search for tracks programmatically as a comprehensive methodology of ethnographic-cultural-analytical research into everyday life, following Rolf Lindner’s cultural analysis and the ‘follow the actor’ imperative of praxeographic approaches, which, furthermore, also includes questions of textual representation.

Keywords
ethnography, methodology, tracks, tracking, popular culture, ethnographic writing