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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315234103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-1422-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Collana

Histoire ; 12

Disciplina

306.094

Soggetti

Anthropology - Research - Europe - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects

Ethnology - Research - Europe - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»[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