Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones
Abstract
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.
[The] combination of carefully developed specific points of research and thorough reexamination of paradigmatic theoretical models should make this volume an indispensable reading and an important point of reference for years to come.
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Beiträge
Adapting to Wartime: The Anthropological Sciences in Europe
Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans
Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps
Afterword
