Methodology & History in Anthropology. Franz Baermann Steiner : : A Stranger in the World / / Richard Fardon, Jeremy Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Adler, Jeremy,; Fardon, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner’s concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. A BRIEF LIFE -- PART I An Oriental in the West -- Chapter 1 BEGINNINGS: THE PRAGUE GERMAN-JEWISH COMMUNITY -- Chapter 2 STUDENT DAYS IN PRAGUE AND JERUSALEM -- Chapter 3 FIRST ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES IN VIENNA AND LONDON, AND FIELDWORK IN SUB-CARPATHIAN RUTHENIA -- Chapter 4 THE IMPACT OF THE EARLY ENGLISH YEARS -- Chapter 5 THE EXILE -- Chapter 6 THE OXFORD ANTHROPOLOGIST -- PART II Orientpolitik, Value and Civilization: The Social Thought -- Chapter 7 BEYOND ‘CULTURE CIRCLES’ THE FIELD TRIP REVISITED -- Chapter 8 ZIONISM, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE -- Chapter 9 ON SLAVERY -- Chapter 10 RADCLIFFE-BROWN AND EVANS-PRITCHARD -- Chapter 11 LABOUR AND VALUE -- Chapter 12 CIVILIZATION AND TABOO -- Chapter 13 SIMMEL AND ARISTOTLE -- PART III The Poet Anthropologist -- Chapter 14 CONQUESTS -- Chapter 15 KAFKA IN ENGLAND -- Chapter 16 THE CHIEF SOCIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE -- Chapter 17 SUFFERING AND VALUE -- Chapter 18 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL MATHESIS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS