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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Policy Brief aims to understand how the EU's endeavours in the fields of culture and scientific research have been received in Egypt and Tunisia, with the aim of developing a sustainable policy direction. After having identified examples of culture and science relations between the EU and MENA countries, the primary question was: What do the EU's partners from the neighbouring countries in the South of the Mediterranean think of its approach to science, innovation and its enhancement of external cultural relations? The results of this study and the first conclusions of its analysis made it possible to make some recommendations to guide future EU policies.

Surveys developments in recent social theory in the course of outlining a new rationale for politics following the subject's own expansion and in the light of developments in post-empiricist thought. Suggests reasons for thinking of politics as a cultural rather than a positive science. (Abstract amended)

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