The concept of diversity eludes a clear and universally viable definition. It is both a theoretical construct – vividly debated in social sciences and humanities – and a universal catchphrase used by various actors to bundle, control and mediate certain dynamics shaped by categories such as origin, religion, gender or class. The contributions in this Festschrift for Reinhard Johler trace this ambiguity in different disciplinary perspectives, spaces and time periods and address different aspects of diversity both as a field of study and a heuristic concept. They investigate how “diversity” can be employed for (historical) ethnographical research on social life.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 INTRODUCTION / Jan Hinrichsen, Jan Lange and Raphael Reichel 9 IS DIVERSITY A USEFUL THEORETICAL CONCEPT? Reflections about a Contested Zeitgeist Term / Boris Nieswand 29 SOCIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY. Conceptual and Methodological Approaches of Anthropology in a Contemporary World / Andre Gingrich 47 HOW DOES DIVERSITY MAKE US FEEL? Exploring the Emotional Regimes of Multicultural Societies / Monique Scheer 61 DIVERSITY BETWEEN CULTURAL MOBILITY AND AESTHETICS / Alessandro Simonicca 85 IDENTITARIAN STEREOTYPES AND LOCAL SPACE IN ITALY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE / Stefano Cavazza 111 ENGAGED ANTHROPOLOGY AND PUBLIC PRESENCE. Meanderings of Croatian Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology / Jasna Čapo 129 VERA STEIN ERLICH AND THE CONUNDRUM OF YUGOSLAV CULTURAL DIVERSITY / Bojan Baskar 147 “LITTLE ALBERSCHWENDE”: THERAPEUTIC VILLAGES – HEALING FAMILIES. Managing Diversity and Orphanhood through the Construction of International Children’s Villages after the Second World War / Bernhard Tschofen 171 “A FRONTIER CROSSED IN THE BREATH”: THE POLISH KRESY AND THE WELSH MARCHES COMPARED / Chris Hann 197 ARE WE WHAT WE EAT? Migration, Diversity and Identity / Mathias Beer 211 FROM NATIONAL LANDSCAPE TO CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. Reinterpretating World Heritage Landscapes in Hungary / Gábor Sonkoly 229 COSMOPOLITANISING COLONIAL MEMORIES IN GERMANY / Thomas Thiemeyer 253 EPILOGUE: LEITMOTIF DIVERSITY / Hermann Bausinger 273 LIST OF AUTHORS 281 LIST OF FIGURES 285