Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones
World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
Contributor(s)
Johler, Reinhard (editor)
Marchetti, Christian (editor)
Scheer, Monique (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101944Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
History; Anthropology; War; World War I; History; Europe; Culture; Science; European History; History of Science; Cultural History; History of the 20th CenturyDOI
10.14361/9783839414224ISBN
9783839414224OCN
1100526037Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2010-10-15Series
Histoire,Classification
European history