Franz Baermann Steiner

A Stranger in the World
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-270-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adler, Jeremy

Fardon, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Brief Life

Part I: An Oriental in the West: A Brief Life

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

Manuscript Sources

F.B.S.’s Unpublished Writings in the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar

Unpublished Letters to and about F.B.S. and Memoirs Concerning him at the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar

F.B.S.’s Unpublished Writings and Other Sources in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

Letters and Other Written Communications to the Editors

Published Sources

A Selection of F.B.S.’s Published Writings

Published Sources Cited



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fardon, Richard
Richard Fardon is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at SOAS University of London. His extensive publications range from the history, ethnography, popular media and historic arts of West Africa to the theory and history of anthropology.

Adler, Jeremy
Jeremy Adler is Emeritus Professor of German and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. A specialist in comparative studies, he has published widely on Baroque literature, Romanticism, and Modernism and has written critical biographies of Goethe and Kafka. He is the editor of the collected edition of Franz Baermann Steiner's poetry.

Jeremy Adler is Emeritus Professor of German and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. A specialist in comparative studies, he has published widely on Baroque literature, Romanticism, and Modernism and has written critical biographies of Goethe and Kafka. He is the editor of the collected edition of Franz Baermann Steiner's poetry.