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Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture.

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"Spirit and System is a brilliant book. It is nothing short of an ethnographic examination both of German post-reunification society and anthropological theory. This is not only a methodological tour de force, it is also ethnographically sensitive and an original and experientially grounded introduction to one of the central problems of German and, indeed, European ethnology." - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 11/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226068909, 978-0226068909
      ISBN10: 0226068900
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      European history European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture.

      Trade Review
      "Spirit and System is a brilliant book. It is nothing short of an ethnographic examination both of German post-reunification society and anthropological theory. This is not only a methodological tour de force, it is also ethnographically sensitive and an original and experientially grounded introduction to one of the central problems of German and, indeed, European ethnology." - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"

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