This volume explores the relationship between archaeology, politics and society in Germany from the later 19th to the end of the 20th century. The contributions discuss key aspects of this relationship in their historical context, beginning with the triumph of national archaeology over universalist anthropology, continuing with the exploitation of archaeology by the Nazi and Communist regimes, the widespread collaboration by archaeologists, and the political and intellectual aftermath of these two episodes. Other contributions raise no less important questions about the role of archaeology in democratic society, by exploring issues such as university teaching, public attitudes, gender, and research abroad. Contributors from outside Germany put this experience into a contemporary, European and international context.
Author(s): Heinrich Härke (ed.)
Series: Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel, 7
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2000
Language: English
Commentary: pages 160-161 are missing
Pages: 434
City: Frankfurt am Main
List of Figures 7
List of Tables 8
Abbreviations 9
Contributors 10
Preface 11
Introduction
The German experience / Heinrich Härke 12
I. From Nationalism to Nazism
Gustaf Kossinna and his concept of a national archaeology / Ulrich Veit 40
Archaeology in the 'Third Reich' / Henning Haßmann 65
Archaeology and anthropology in Germany before 1945 / Frank Fetten 140
II. Post-War West Germany
Vorsprung durch Technik or 'Kossinna Syndrome'? Archaeological theory and social context in post-war West Germany / Sabine Wolfram 180
The teaching of archaeology in West Germany / Ulrike Sommer 202
Archaeology and the German public / Martin Schmidt 240
Women's situation as archaeologists / Eva-Maria Mertens 271
Women in the underground: gender studies in German archaeology / Sigrun M. Kartisch, Sibylle Kästner and Helga Brandt 285
III. East Germany and Reunification
Archaeology under Communist control: the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1990 / Werner Coblenz) 304
German unification and East German archaeology / Jörn Jacobs 339
IV. International Perspectives
'Traumland Südwest': two moments in the history of German archaeological inquiry in Namibia / John Kinahan 353
German archaeology at risk? A neighbour's critical view of tradition, structure and serendipity / Tom Bloemers 375
A transatlantic perspective on German archaeology / Bettina Arnold 398
Index 423
