Research Catalog

Title

Doing anthropology in wartime and war zones : World War I and the cultural sciences in Europe / Reinhard Johler, Christian Marchetti, Monique Scheer (eds.).

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2010], ©2010.

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Additional Authors

• Johler, Reinhard
• Marchetti, Christian
• Scheer, Monique

Description

392 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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[1/2]: 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[1/2] between +races[1/2], and assessed the +warlike[1/2] nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Histoire ; Band 12

Uniform Title

Histoire (Transcript (Firm)) Bd. 12.

Subject

• 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Anthropology > Research > Europe > 20th century
• Ethnology > Research > Europe > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'A time like no other' : the impact of the Great War on European anthropology / Monique Scheer, Christian Marchetti, and Reinhard Johler -- pt. 1. Adapting to wartime : the anthropological sciences in Europe -- Continuity and change in British anthropology, 1914-1919 / Henrika Kuklick -- Doing anthropology in Russian military uniform / Marina Mogilner -- Wartime folklore : Italian anthropology and the First World War / Paolo De Simonis and Fabio Dei -- Science behind the lines : the effects of World War I on anthropology in Germany / Andrew D. Evans -- Laboratory conditions : German-speaking 'Volkskunde' and the Great War / Reinhard Johler -- 'Betwixt and between' : physical anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the end of the First World War / Christian Promitzer -- pt. 2. Constructing a war zone : Austrian ethnography in the Balkans -- Swords into souvenirs : Bosnian arts and crafts under Habsburg administration / Diana Reynolds Cordileone -- The experience of borders : Montenegrin tribesmen at war / Ursula Reber -- Austro-Hungarian 'Volkskunde' at war : scientists on ethnographic mission in World War I / Christian Marchetti -- pt. 3. Studying the enemy : anthropological research in prisoner-of-war camps -- Large-scale anthropological surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 / Margit Berner -- Jews among the peoples : visual archives in German prison camps during the Great War / Margaret Olin -- Captive voices : phonographic recordings in the German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps of World War I / Monique Scheer -- Aftermath : anthropological data from prisoner-of-war camps / Britta Lange -- Ethnographic films from prisoner-of-war camps and the aesthetics of early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- pt. 4. Afterword -- After the Great War : national reconfigurations of anthropology in late colonial times / Andre Gingrich.

ISBN

• 9783837614220
• 3837614220

OCLC

• 642848038
• SCSB-12222545

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library