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Cover Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones -- Contents -- "A Time Like No Other": Th e Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology -- Adapting to Wartime: Th e Anthropological Sciences in Europe -- Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919 -- Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform -- Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War -- Science behind the Lines: Th e Eff ects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany -- Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War -- "Betwixt and Between": Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War -- Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans -- Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration -- The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War -- Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I -- Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 -- Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War -- Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I -- AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema -- Afterword -- After the Great War: National Reconfi gurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times -- List of Contributors -- Name Index.

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.

"Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "About the Editor" -- "Chapter 1 Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology: An Introduction " -- "A Legacy of Ashes? The Rise and Declineof Public Anthropology" -- "What Is the "Public" in "Public Anthropology"?" -- "Anthropologists and the Problem of the Media" -- "Public Anthropologists in Social Media and in Publishing" -- "Public Anthropology as a "Public Good"?" -- "The Return of Political Economy" -- "Engaged andor Public Anthropology" -- "The Background to This Anthology" -- "The Case for Public Anthropology—Again" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Kristian Berg Harpviken About Lived Islam in the Frontier Regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. House of Literature, April 28, 2011 " -- "References" -- "Chapter 3 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Knut G. Nustad About Anthropology, Hate Speech and Incitement to Commit Genocide. House of Literature, May 14, 2013 " -- "References" -- "Chapter 4 In Conversation with Marit Melhuus and Benedicte Bull About Life and Death in Mexico. House of Literature, September 26, 2013 " -- "References" -- "Chapter 5 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn E. Bertelsen About Anthropology, the Cold War and the "War on Terror". House of Literature, May 20, 2014 " -- "References" -- "Chapter 6 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Paul Wenzel Geissler About Anthropology's Great Expectations. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence in OctoberNovember 2016. " -- "References" -- "Chapter 7 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad About Migrants, Illegality and the Bordering of Europe. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence in September 2016. " -- "References" -- "Chapter 8 In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Karin Kapadia. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence in OctoberNovember 2016 " -- "References

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.

What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? This question has occupied a group of researchers from Brazil and Europe and has been explored at two workshops during which the contributors to this volume have discussed anthropological themes in Augustine's vast corpus. In this volume, the reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine's anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts, while others focus on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine's anthropology. The authors of the articles in this volume are convinced that Augustine's anthropology is of major importance for how human beings have been understood in Western civilization for better or for worse. The topic is therefore highly relevant to present times in which humanity is under pressure from various sides.

An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of 'the field.'
The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe. Irène Bellier and Thomas M. Wilson. eds. New York: NYU Press, 2000. 224 pp.

Dutch anthropology is a rich field of studies of culture and society in Europe and beyond, with hundreds of participants, today and for the past two centuries.1 It is the result of a complex interaction between scholarly interests in distant peoples, several centuries of colonialism and international trade, and political decisions on the structuring of higher education and research in the Netherlands and its former colonies.2 To a large extent, this historical background has shaped the way research is organised and funded nowadays.