Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones: World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe

book: Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2010

Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe

Edited by: Reinhard Johler , Christian Marchetti and Monique Scheer
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection

Volume 12 in the series Histoire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839414224

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Reinhard Johler is full professor of European Ethnology at the University of Tübingen and director of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Culture.
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.

Reviews

»[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.«
Aleksandar Boskovic, Anthropos, 107 (2012)

»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.«
Silke Göttsch-Elten, H-Soz-u-Kult, 18.02.2011

Reviewed in:

European Association of Social Anthropologists, (2011), Marius Turda
Kwartalnik Historyczny, 2 (2013), Aleksandra Rodziska-Chojnowska
Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, 161/122 (2013), Rainer Brüning

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
“A Time Like No Other”: The Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology Monique Scheer, Christian Marchetti and Reinhard Johler Open Access Download PDF	9
Adapting to Wartime: The Anthropological Sciences in Europe
Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914–1919 Henrika Kuklick Open Access Download PDF	29
Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform Marina Mogilner Open Access Download PDF	47
Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War Paolo De Simonis and Fabio Dei Open Access Download PDF	75
Science behind the Lines: The Effects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany Andrew D. Evans Open Access Download PDF	99
Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War Reinhard Johler Open Access Download PDF	123
“Betwixt and Between”: Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War Christian Promitzer Open Access Download PDF	141
Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans
Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration Diana Reynolds Cordileone Open Access Download PDF	169
The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War Ursula Reber Open Access Download PDF	191
Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I Christian Marchetti Open Access Download PDF	207
Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps
Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871–1918 Margit Berner Open Access Download PDF	233
Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War Margaret Olin Open Access Download PDF	255
Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I Monique Scheer Open Access Download PDF	279
AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps Britta Lange Open Access Download PDF	311
Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema Wolfgang Fuhrmann Open Access Download PDF	337
Afterword
After the Great War: National Reconfigurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times Andre Gingrich Open Access Download PDF	355
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	381
Name Index Open Access Download PDF	387

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 394
Keywords: War; World War I; History; Europe; Culture; Science; European History; History of Science; Cultural History; History of the 20th Century

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839414224