Former Neighbors, Future Allies?: German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Published by Berghahn Books 2023

Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Edited by: A. Dana Weber

Volume 28 in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800738973

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About this book

German studies scholars from various disciplines often use and reference ethnography, yet do not often present ethnography as a core methodology and research approach. Former Neighbors, Future Allies? emphasizes how German studies engages in methods and theories of ethnography. Through a variety of topics and from multiple perspectives including literature, folklore, history, sociology, and anthropology, this volume draws attention to how ethnography bridges transdisciplinary and international research in German studies.

Author / Editor information

A. Dana Weber is an Associate Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. She is the author of Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and has edited the essay volume Performativity—Life, Stage Screen. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Concept (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2018). Her research and articles address interdisciplinary topics in literature, film, performance, and folklore studies. She is currently working on a project about blood brotherhood in modern German literature and film.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. German Studies and Ethnography: Histories, Similarities, and Intersections A. Dana Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Incognito ergo sum: Ethnographic Observation as Mediator between Poetic Self-Projection and Sociological Narration in Goethe’s Work Christian P. Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 2. On Authority of Observation in Travel Writing: Georg Forster’s Self-Reflexive Anthropology Madhuvanti Karyekar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 3. Adolf Bastian, Walter Benjamin, and Deep History: Rethinking the Universal Archive Andrew Calabro Cavin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 4. Crowd Control: Organizing Peoples with the Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum (1577) Lacy Gillette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 5. Workers, Turks, Muslims: Ethnographies of Migration to Germany-in-Europe Revisited Levent Soysal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 6. Ethnography and the Image of New World Indians in German Travel Narratives and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period Giovanna Montenegro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 7. An Ethnography of Home: Writing Colonial Culture into German Naturalist Literature Alyssa Howards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Chapter 8. Ethnographic Shortcuts: Art Exhibition and Fieldwork in the Everyday Spaces between Anthropology of Art and German Studies Barbara Wolbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 9. Changing Perspectives: The Dirndl—A Contemporary Topic of Urban Ethnography Simone Egger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 10. Literary Ethnography: Fieldwork in the Eifel, a German Literary Tourism Site Raphaela Knipp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Conclusion. Crafting German Things Andrew Stuart Bergerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 342

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Published: March 10, 2023
ISBN: 9781800738973