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Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe Reinhard Johler, Christian Marchetti, Monique Scheer
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Histoire (Transcript (Firm)) ; Band 12.
- Histoire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology.
- War.
- World War I.
- History.
- Europe.
- Culture.
- Science.
- European History.
- History of Science.
- Cultural History.
- History of the 20th Century.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- War.
- World War I.
- History.
- Europe.
- Culture.
- Science.
- European History.
- History of Science.
- Cultural History.
- History of the 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Johler et al. (eds.), Doing Anthropology World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Reinhard Johler is full professor of European Ethnology at the University of Tübingen. In addition to migration and diversity, his field of work includes the history and theory of European ethnology.
- Christian Marchetti (M.A.) is a doctoral candidate in European Ethnology at the University of Tübingen.
- Monique Scheer is Professor for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
- Summary:
- World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.
- »Der vorgelegte Sammelband unternimmt nichts weniger, als einen bis dahin größtenteils blinden Fleck der Anthropologie näher zu untersuchen.«
- Reviewed in:European Association of Social Anthropologists, (2011), Marius TurdaKwartalnik Historyczny, 2 (2013), Aleksandra Rodziska-ChojnowskaZeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, 161/122 (2013), Rainer Brüning
- »Der thematisch konzentrierte, aber räumlich weit ausgreifende Sammelband vermittelt einen anschaulichen und differenzierten Überblick über die Bedeutung, die der Erste Weltkrieg für die Herausbildung der Disziplinen Volks-/Völkerkunde (Anthropology) hatte.«
- »The publication of this scholarly and well-edited volume is commendable. For those who are already familiar with the history of anthropology, this volume will advance their knowledge of anthropology in wartimes and war zones; for those who do not, it will awaken great interest.«
- »[The] combination of carefully developed specific points of research and thorough reexamination of paradigmatic theoretical models should make this volume an indispensable reading and an important point of reference for years to come.«
- Reviewed in:European Association of Social Anthropologists, (2011), Marius Turda
- Contents:
- Frontmatter i Acknowledgments v Contents ix "A Time Like No Other": The Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology 9 Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919 29 Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform 47 Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War 75 Science behind the Lines: The Effects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany 99 Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War 123 "Betwixt and Between": Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War 141 Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration 169 The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War 191 Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I 207 Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 233 Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War 255 Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I 279 AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps 311 Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema 337 After the Great War: National Reconfigurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times 355 List of Contributors 381 Name Index 387
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839414224
- 3839414229
- OCLC:
- 885021172
- Access Restriction:
- open access Unrestricted online access
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