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Contents

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Introduction: German Studies and Ethnography—Histories, Similarities, and Intersections
A. Dana Weber

Chapter 1. Incognito ergo sum: Ethnographic Observation as Mediator between Poetic Self-Projection and Sociological Narration in Goethe’s Work
Christian P. Weber

Chapter 2. On Authority of Observation in Travel Writing: Georg Forster’s Self-Reflexive Anthropology
Madhuvanti Karyekar

Chapter 3. Adolf Bastian, Walter Benjamin, and Deep History: Rethinking the Universal Archive
Andrew Calabro Cavin

Chapter 4. Crowd Control: Organizing Peoples with the Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum (1577)
Lacy Gillette

Chapter 5. Workers, Turks, Muslims: Ethnographies of Migration to Germany-in-Europe Revisited
Levent Soysal

Chapter 6. Ethnography and the Image of New World Indians in German Travel Narratives and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period.
Giovanna Montenegro

Chapter 7. An Ethnography of Home: Writing Colonial Culture into German Naturalist Literature.
Alyssa Howards

Chapter 8. Changing Perspectives: The Dirndl—A Contemporary Topic of Urban Ethnography
Simone Egger

Chapter 9. Literary Ethnography: Fieldwork in the Eifel, a German Literary Tourism Site
Raphaela Knipp

Conclusion: Crafting German Things
Andrew Stuart Bergerson

Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Edited by A. Dana Weber

342 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-896-6 Hb Published (March 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-897-3 eBook

Details

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.

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.

Series: Volume 28, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

Subject: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Area: Germany

LC: DD290.26 .F676 2023

BISAC: HIS014000 HISTORY/Europe/Germany; HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century; POL010000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/History & Theory