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JON MATHIEU, "ALPINE DISCOURSE AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH PRACTICES IN SWITZERLAND"
In Switzerland the Alps count among the most important of all national symbols, and, at first sight, one would assume that alpine historical studies had acquired a corresponding status. This is not so: The more densely populated midland areas are, in practice, much more often a subject of study than the mountain regions. Nevertheless, research on the Swiss alpine regions over the past decades may be termed active, and the intensity thereof is on the up-grade. In contrast to ethnology and geography, which both traditionally apply themselves diligently to the Alps, historical studies should concentrate on the question of change and stability. An overall alpine perspective offers them in return additional opportunities of comparison.
ROGER SABLONIER, "ALPINE STUDIES FROM THE HISTORIAN’S POINT OF VIEW"
This contribution documents the perspectives of the historian in the context of interdisciplinary alpine studies (it was composed for the 2nd National Alpine Studies Congress of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences in Hergiswil, 27th October 1995). The concept of alpine research can be useful in determining territorial bounds. But it is unacceptable for it to suggest a historical unity of alpine development which should be credited to environmental pre-conditions. Such a unity would first have to be ascertained. There is no doubt that the variety of regional societies in the Alps is particularly marked. This “socio-diversity” (not in the sense of a normative image of what is worth preserving as in bio-diversity) makes the historical research thereof particularly attractive. The main aim thereby is an expansion of cultural orientation knowledge in the form of structural analogies.
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