Reinhard Johler / Christian Marchetti / Monique Scheer (eds.)

Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe

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.

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9. April 2014, 394 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-1422-4
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»[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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Autor*in(nen): Reinhard Johler / Christian Marchetti / Monique Scheer (eds.)
Buchtitel: Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
Verlag: transcript Verlag
Seitenanzahl: 394

ISBN: 978-3-8394-1422-4
DOI: 10.14361/9783839414224
Warengruppe: 1558
BIC-Code: HBJD PDX HBTB
BISAC-Code: HIS010000 SCI034000 HIS054000
THEMA-Code: NHD PDX NHTB

Erscheinungsdatum: 9. April 2014
Themen: Kultur, Wissenschaft
Adressaten: Anthropology, Ethnology, History

Schlagworte: Anthropology, War, World War I, History, Europe, Culture, Science, European History, History of Science, Cultural History, History of the 20th Century

Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

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Frontmatter

Contents

"A Time Like No Other": The Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology

Adapting to Wartime: The Anthropological Sciences in Europe

Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919

Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform

Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War

Science behind the Lines: The Effects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany

Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War

"Betwixt and Between": Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War

Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans

Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration

The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War

Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I

Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps

Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918

Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War

Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I

AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps

Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema

Afterword

After the Great War: National Reconfigurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times

List of Contributors

Name Index