Doing Anthropology In Wartime And War Zones: World War I And The Cultural Sciences In Europe (histoire)

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. '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. Reinhard Johler, Christian Marchetti, Monique Scheer (eds.). Acknowledgments 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 Review text:" [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" 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."Marius Turda, European Association of Social Anthropologists, (2011) Besprochen in: Kwartalnik Historyczny, 2 (2013), Aleksandra Rodziska-Chojnowska »[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, 18.02.2011Reviewed 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

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.

Biographical note: 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 (Dr. rer. soc.) is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin