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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• 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