ABSTRACT
Human Ecology has been defined as "a transdisciplinary science of human populations and their cultures, treating them as a creative element of ecosystems and social systems and attracting attention to the role of environment in the formation of human biological and cultural characteristics". Historically, ethnology has a legacy of anthropological attention to the social and material basis of tradition, particularly in rural and peasant societies. Ethnology as a subject specializing in the Hiesige must work locally and spatially specific, but should not lose itself in the collection and contemplation of highly detailed descriptions of individual cultural expressions. Ethnology has a particular public role and historical responsibility in this regard. There are many interdisciplinary interfaces where, given its focus on the nexus of anthropos, ethnos and topos, ethnology can act as mediator and filter, between the local-specific level of the applied and the universal-generalizing level of theory and thus become a kind of locally grounded conscience of research endeavors.
