Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
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
