ISBN:
9781800732711
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Methodology & History in Anthropology 42
Abstract:
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner's concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Brief Life -- Part I: An Oriental in the West: A Brief Life -- Chapter 1. Beginnings: The Prague German-Jewish Community -- Chapter 2. Student Days in Prague and Jerusalem -- Chapter 3. First Ethnological Studies in Vienna and London, and Fieldwork in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia -- Chapter 4. The Impact of the Early English Years -- Chapter 5. The Exile -- Chapter 6. The Oxford Anthropologist -- Part II: Orientpolitik, Value and Civilization: The Social Thought -- Chapter 7. Beyond 'Culture Circles': The Field Trip Revisited -- Chapter 8. Zionism, Political and Cultural Critique -- Chapter 9. On Slavery -- Chapter 10. Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard -- Chapter 11. Labour and Value -- Chapter 12. Civilization and Taboo -- Chapter 13. Simmel and Aristotle -- Part III: The Poet Anthropologist -- Chapter 14. Conquests -- Chapter 15. Kafka in England -- Chapter 16. The Chief Sociological Principle -- Chapter 17. Suffering and Value -- Chapter 18. In Search of the Universal Mathesis -- References -- Manuscript Sources -- F.B.S.'s Unpublished Writings in the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar -- Unpublished Letters to and about F.B.S. and Memoirs Concerning him at the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar -- F.B.S.'s Unpublished Writings and Other Sources in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford -- Letters and Other Written Communications to the Editors -- Published Sources -- A Selection of F.B.S.'s Published Writings -- Published Sources Cited -- -- Index
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