John R Eidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 100659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Eidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Eidson |
| SIGNATURE | EIDSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
The Anthropology of Ontology in Siberia
The dissolution of the Soviet Union opened a new phase in the anthropological study of Siberia, as researchers from Western Europe, North America, and Japan joined their colleagues of the former Soviet Bloc in the field. This occurred just as a number of new trends emerged in the field of anthropology, including those referred to as “the ontological turn” or “the anthropology of ontology.” To what extent could the latter, originally developed on …
After Ethnos. Tobias Rees. Durham, NC
From Identification to Framing and Alignment
We present a comprehensive framework for the comparative analysis of collective identities and corresponding processes of identification, framing, and alignment. Collective identities are defined as activated categories of likeness, distinction, and solidarity, located within any one of a number of possible frames (e.g., nationality, religion, and gender) and aligned series (e.g., national, regional, or local categories of identification). Emphas…
Between groitzsch and deutzen
Developments in East German agriculture after 1945 and 1990 are illustrated through a case study set in the region south of Leipzig. Beginning in the 1950s, the collectivization of agricultural production had led, by the mid-1970s, to the consolidation of fully collectivized cooperative farms (LPG type III), either at the village level or in areas encompassing neighboring villages. Thereafter, planners promoted industrialization, specialization, …
Changing Properties of Property
Between heritage and countermemory
Contrasting views of the past are often understood in terms of dichotomies (e.g., hegemonic-counterhegemonic and regressive-progressive), but ethnographic data gathered in a German community suggest the need for a more differentiated approach. The public presentation of history in that community corresponds to one of three conventions: (1) the commemoration of the founding of local institutions by their members, (2) "hometown history," an avocati…
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology
Tree Leaf Talk
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 364 pp
Debt and Dispossession
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv. 195 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, index
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Blood and Nation
Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp. German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp
Which Past for Whom? Local Memory in a German Community during the Era of Nation Building
It has become common to distinguish between forms of collective memory that promote nation building and those that resist it. Closer examination of supposedly homogenizing discourse, however, may reveal variations that accommodate different perspectives and interests. An illustration is provided in this article with reference to case study materials from a town on the Middle Rhine. In the 19th century, different forms of collective memory develop…
Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes
German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction
John R. Eidson, German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 134-148
General/Theoretical Anthropology
German Club Life as a Local Cultural System
In the shadow of the Historikerstreit over the meaning of the Nazi era, West German historians are conducting a less highly publicized but similarly politicized debate about the role of ethnography in social history. The following analysis of local club life, based on ethnographic and archival research in Boppard on the Rhine, is offered as a contribution to and comment on this debate from the viewpoint of interpretive cultural anthropology. I co…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Life Is like a Chicken Coop Ladder. A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore
Between heritage and countermemory
Contrasting views of the past are often understood in terms of dichotomies (e.g., hegemonic-counterhegemonic and regressive-progressive), but ethnographic data gathered in a German community suggest the need for a more differentiated approach. The public presentation of history in that community corresponds to one of three conventions: (1) the commemoration of the founding of local institutions by their members, (2) "hometown history," an avocati…
From Identification to Framing and Alignment
We present a comprehensive framework for the comparative analysis of collective identities and corresponding processes of identification, framing, and alignment. Collective identities are defined as activated categories of likeness, distinction, and solidarity, located within any one of a number of possible frames (e.g., nationality, religion, and gender) and aligned series (e.g., national, regional, or local categories of identification). Emphas…
Which Past for Whom? Local Memory in a German Community during the Era of Nation Building
It has become common to distinguish between forms of collective memory that promote nation building and those that resist it. Closer examination of supposedly homogenizing discourse, however, may reveal variations that accommodate different perspectives and interests. An illustration is provided in this article with reference to case study materials from a town on the Middle Rhine. In the 19th century, different forms of collective memory develop…
Debt and Dispossession
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv. 195 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, index
German Club Life as a Local Cultural System
In the shadow of the Historikerstreit over the meaning of the Nazi era, West German historians are conducting a less highly publicized but similarly politicized debate about the role of ethnography in social history. The following analysis of local club life, based on ethnographic and archival research in Boppard on the Rhine, is offered as a contribution to and comment on this debate from the viewpoint of interpretive cultural anthropology. I co…
German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction
John R. Eidson, German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 134-148
Life Is like a Chicken Coop Ladder. A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore
General/Theoretical Anthropology
General/Theoretical Anthropology
German Club Life as a Local Cultural System
In the shadow of the Historikerstreit over the meaning of the Nazi era, West German historians are conducting a less highly publicized but similarly politicized debate about the role of ethnography in social history. The following analysis of local club life, based on ethnographic and archival research in Boppard on the Rhine, is offered as a contribution to and comment on this debate from the viewpoint of interpretive cultural anthropology. I co…
German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction
John R. Eidson, German Local History as Metaphor and Sanction, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 134-148
Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes
Which Past for Whom? Local Memory in a German Community during the Era of Nation Building
It has become common to distinguish between forms of collective memory that promote nation building and those that resist it. Closer examination of supposedly homogenizing discourse, however, may reveal variations that accommodate different perspectives and interests. An illustration is provided in this article with reference to case study materials from a town on the Middle Rhine. In the 19th century, different forms of collective memory develop…
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Blood and Nation
Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp. German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp
Debt and Dispossession
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv. 195 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, index
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology
Tree Leaf Talk
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 364 pp
Between heritage and countermemory
Contrasting views of the past are often understood in terms of dichotomies (e.g., hegemonic-counterhegemonic and regressive-progressive), but ethnographic data gathered in a German community suggest the need for a more differentiated approach. The public presentation of history in that community corresponds to one of three conventions: (1) the commemoration of the founding of local institutions by their members, (2) "hometown history," an avocati…
Changing Properties of Property
Between groitzsch and deutzen
Developments in East German agriculture after 1945 and 1990 are illustrated through a case study set in the region south of Leipzig. Beginning in the 1950s, the collectivization of agricultural production had led, by the mid-1970s, to the consolidation of fully collectivized cooperative farms (LPG type III), either at the village level or in areas encompassing neighboring villages. Thereafter, planners promoted industrialization, specialization, …
From Identification to Framing and Alignment
We present a comprehensive framework for the comparative analysis of collective identities and corresponding processes of identification, framing, and alignment. Collective identities are defined as activated categories of likeness, distinction, and solidarity, located within any one of a number of possible frames (e.g., nationality, religion, and gender) and aligned series (e.g., national, regional, or local categories of identification). Emphas…
After Ethnos. Tobias Rees. Durham, NC
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
The Anthropology of Ontology in Siberia
The dissolution of the Soviet Union opened a new phase in the anthropological study of Siberia, as researchers from Western Europe, North America, and Japan joined their colleagues of the former Soviet Bloc in the field. This occurred just as a number of new trends emerged in the field of anthropology, including those referred to as “the ontological turn” or “the anthropology of ontology.” To what extent could the latter, originally developed on …
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