The German Archaeological Institute Between Transnational Scholarship and Foreign Cultural Policy

Jansen, Christian

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“…The Instituto became a German affair, with all languages except German and Latin being abolished. 69 The nationalisation of academic life in the Eternal City offered new prospects to Ersilia. From the 1880s onwards, the number of nationalities amongst the archaeologists and philologists in her drawing rooms grew.…”

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How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

Meens

2018

Cultural and Social History

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Many scholars have problematised the meaning that is nowadays attributed to the word salon, even if most of them still use it as a concept to study a specific female type of sociability. The regularity of the meetings, and the mixtures of gender, social groups and nationalities are mostly mentioned as the defining characteristics of a salon. Since these have a quantitative fundament it is surprising that most scholars only use qualitative methods. Analysing the receptions of the Italian countess Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli, this article shows the value of quantitative research. It helps disproving old historiographical assumptions that are mostly related to the social composition and functioning of the gatherings. It also leads to a plea for using of the alternative concept of private sociability.

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How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

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2018

Cultural and Social History

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“…The greatest emphasis, though, was placed by Schörgendorfer on a prospective excavation of the city of Knossos, which he described as one of the most urgent and successful explorations which have to be undertaken by the German scientists, and which does not lie in the shadow of the surveys undertaken up to now by foreign schools.Schörgendorfer's proposal was met with enthusiasm by Bernhard Rust, who stated that this kind of exploration initiated the potential for a new era of active archaeological engagement of the Institute on Crete (Vigener 2012a, 95). Besides, the German Archaeological Institute was then financed by the Foreign Office ( Auswärtiges Amt ); therefore, it identified with the prevalent foreign policy of the Nazi regime (Jansen 2008, 164–6). Apparently, Schede, in a letter addressed to Wrede, also left the possibility open that in the post-war era Schörgendorfer and Fritz Schachermeyr (1895–1987), at that time a professor at the University of Graz, should engage in excavations on the island 40 .…”

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ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE WAR ZONE: AUGUST SCHÖRGENDORFER AND THEKUNSTSCHUTZON CRETE DURING WORLD WAR II

Flouda¹

2017

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This paper considers the recruitment of young archaeologists into the German military on Crete and its impact upon the development of archaeological agendas during the period of the Third Reich. It explores – as a case study – the archaeological activity of August Schörgendorfer, an Austrian archaeologist, on German-occupied Crete. Schörgendorfer enlisted as a Wehrmacht officer, was upgraded to a Kunstschutz officer through the intervention of Major General Julius Ringel, and in 1941–2 undertook illicit excavations at Knossos and in the Mesara. By presenting data collected through archival research and Schörgendorfer's previously unpublished photo album of Crete, I explore his ideological trajectories and his archaeological itineraries on the island under occupation. Integrating the latter with the recent historiography of Nazi-era archaeology illuminates undocumented aspects of the Wehrmacht’s archaeological research on the island. Facets of the cultural policies of the German Archaeological Institute and wider questions of archaeological ethics are informed by analysing the entanglement of archaeological institutions and archaeologists with the political turmoil of the era of World War II.

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“…Moreover, the German Archaeological Institute chose this perspective as one of its research clusters in order to shed light on the institute's political and societal role through time (e.g. Jansen 2008; Vigener 2012).…”

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Beyond antiquarianism. A review of current theoretical issues in German-speaking prehistoric archaeology

Hofmann¹,

Stockhammer²

2017

Arch. Dial.

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Whereas German-speaking archaeology (GSA) has long been understood as generally uninterested in theoretical debates, the situation has taken a most interesting development since the year 2000. Archaeologists tried to escape the general decline of the small university disciplines by getting more and more involved in the overarching research questions of cultural studies and in large-scale collaborative projects. The necessity of integrating a clear theoretical and methodological approach for a successful proposal and the subsequent research changed the significance of theoretical discussions. As a consequence, theme-oriented research has developed which aims at addressing overarching themes in the cultural and social sciences. We have chosen five of the most prominent themes in German-speaking archaeologyself-reflexivity, identities, space, cultural encounter and knowledge transfer -as well as material culture, and shed light on their theoretical conceptualization and methodological implementation in recent publications. Despite the lack of dominant schools of thinking, its strong rootedness in the evaluation of empirical sources, and its close link to the discipline of history, current GSA can contribute to the overall theoretical discourse of the discipline.

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The German Archaeological Institute Between Transnational Scholarship and Foreign Cultural Policy

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How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE WAR ZONE: AUGUST SCHÖRGENDORFER AND THEKUNSTSCHUTZON CRETE DURING WORLD WAR II

Beyond antiquarianism. A review of current theoretical issues in German-speaking prehistoric archaeology

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