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.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: German Studies and Ethnography—Histories, Similarities, and IntersectionsA. Dana WeberChapter 1. Incognito ergo sum: Ethnographic Observation as Mediator between Poetic Self-Projection and Sociological Narration in Goethe’s WorkChristian P. WeberChapter 2. On Authority of Observation in Travel Writing: Georg Forster’s Self-Reflexive AnthropologyMadhuvanti KaryekarChapter 3. Adolf Bastian, Walter Benjamin, and Deep History: Rethinking the Universal ArchiveAndrew Calabro CavinChapter 4. Crowd Control: Organizing Peoples with the Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum (1577)Lacy GilletteChapter 5. Workers, Turks, Muslims: Ethnographies of Migration to Germany-in-Europe RevisitedLevent SoysalChapter 6. Ethnography and the Image of New World Indians in German Travel Narratives and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period.Giovanna MontenegroChapter 7. An Ethnography of Home: Writing Colonial Culture into German Naturalist Literature.Alyssa HowardsChapter 8. Changing Perspectives: The Dirndl—A Contemporary Topic of Urban EthnographySimone EggerChapter 9. Literary Ethnography: Fieldwork in the Eifel, a German Literary Tourism SiteRaphaela KnippConclusion: Crafting German ThingsAndrew Stuart Bergerson