Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. German Studies and Ethnography: Histories, Similarities, and Intersections 1
6. Chapter 1. Incognito ergo sum: Ethnographic Observation as Mediator between Poetic Self-Projection and Sociological Narration in Goethe’s Work 45
7. Chapter 2. On Authority of Observation in Travel Writing: Georg Forster’s Self-Reflexive Anthropology 89
8. Chapter 3. Adolf Bastian, Walter Benjamin, and Deep History: Rethinking the Universal Archive 117
9. Chapter 4. Crowd Control: Organizing Peoples with the Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum (1577) 139
10. Chapter 5. Workers, Turks, Muslims: Ethnographies of Migration to Germany-in-Europe Revisited 161
11. Chapter 6. Ethnography and the Image of New World Indians in German Travel Narratives and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period 187
12. Chapter 7. An Ethnography of Home: Writing Colonial Culture into German Naturalist Literature 217
13. Chapter 8. Ethnographic Shortcuts: Art Exhibition and Fieldwork in the Everyday Spaces between Anthropology of Art and German Studies 235
14. Chapter 9. Changing Perspectives: The Dirndl—A Contemporary Topic of Urban Ethnography 267
15. Chapter 10. Literary Ethnography: Fieldwork in the Eifel, a German Literary Tourism Site 285
16. Conclusion. Crafting German Things 307
17. Index 325