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Indigenous Visions
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.
Franz Boas
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist’s birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also examining his role in training professional anthropologists from his berth at Columbia University in New York City. Zumwalt follows the stepping-stones that led Boas to his vision of anthropology as a four-field discipline, a journey demonstrating especially his tenacity to succeed, the passions that animated his...
Do You See Ice?
Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however—the one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel there—is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do You See Ice? presents a history of Arctic encounters from 1850 to 1920 based on Inuit and American accounts, revealing how people made sense of new or changing environments. Routledge vividly depicts the experiences of American whalers and explorers in Inuit homelands. Conversely, she relates stories of Inuit who traveled to the northeastern United States and were similarly challenged by the norms, practices, and weather they found there....
Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884
In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This book presents, for the first time, his letters and journal entries from the year that he spent among the Inuit, providing not only an insightful background to his numerous scientific articles about Inuit culture, but a comprehensive and engaging narrative as well. Using a Scottish whaling station as his base, Boas travelled widely with the Inuit, learning their language, living in their tents and snow houses, sharing their food, an...
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.
Und tschüs
Seine Briefe sind reinste Wortakrobatik. Jeder ist ein Unikat, ein Geschenk des Autors an sich selbst und seine Korrespondenzpartner. Harry Rowohlt schreibt an seine Freunde, an die Autoren, die er übersetzt hat, und an seine Verleger; er schreibt an Buchhändler und Journalisten, er antwortet Leserbriefschreibern und Bittstellern. Er schreibt Briefe, wie andere sich am Bart zupfen: unablässig, selbstvergessen, mal voller Zuneigung, mal erbost, aber stets wortgewandt. Er kennt so viele Wörter, Anekdoten und Sprüche, dass manch einer vor Neid erblassen müsste. Ein höchst intelligentes Lesevergnügen dank einer fast vergessenen Kunst: der des Briefeschreibens. Harry Rowohlt gehört zu den unerreichten Meistern darin.
Ist das jetzt Satire oder was?
Was darf Satire? Was kann Satire? Was soll Satire? Gut dreißig Autorinnen und Autoren, darunter zahlreiche aus Titanic und taz-Wahrheit bekannte, gehen diesen Fragen nach. Ein Lesebuch mit famosen Satiren, geschickt gefakten Reportagen und spitzen Reflexionen zu Macht und Grenzen des Genres. Nach dem Attentat auf das französische Satiremagazin Charlie Hebdo wurde auch hierzulande wieder viel über das Wesen und die Aufgabe von Satire diskutiert. Heiko Werning, taz-Autor und ständiger Mitarbeiter der Titanic, und Satyr-Verleger Volker Surmann haben für diesen Band meisterliche Satiren zur bundesdeutschen Gegenwart gesammelt sowie süffisante Beiträge über Satire und ihre Rezeption zusam...
Kein Schweiß aufs Buch!
Mehr Spaß beim Schwitzen! Volker Surmann ist leidenschaftlicher Saunagänger und eingefleischter Satiriker. Dieses Buch ist das Ergebnis dieser heißen Allianz. Denn wie könnte man genau dort wegschauen, wo es so viele seltsame Rituale, ungeschriebene Gesetze und bizarre Verhaltensweisen gibt? Die Geschichten, Glossen und Cartoons in diesem Band enthüllen, wieso man in der Sauna nie über Geschäftsgeheimnisse sprechen sollte, welches die angesagtesten Trendaufgüsse sind und wieso Männer dabei immer so röhren müssen. Gastbeiträge von Ella Carina Werner, Christian Ritter, Dagmar Schönleber und Bernd Gieseking sowie Cartoons von ©TOM, Hauck & Bauer, Miriam Wurster, Piero Masztalerz und Karsten Lampe machen dieses Buch mindestens so anregend wie einen Cranberry-Koks-Aufguss in Berlin-Mitte.
