Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

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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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