Craig Gerlach
Biographic Data
| ID | 118393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Gerlach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerlach |
| SIGNATURE | GERLACH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1261-4889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The face inversion effect or the face upright effect
The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects. This has been taken as evidence that processing of faces and objects differ qualitatively. However, nearly all FIE studies are based on comparing individuation of upright faces, which most people are rather good at, with individuation of objects most people are much …
Documenting Indigenous Knowledge to Identify and Understand the Stressors of Muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatu s) in Nunavut, Canada
Indigenous knowledge provides valuable information on wildlife health and ecology, contributing to a broader understanding of the patterns and phenomena observed. Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), an important species for the subsistence and culture of Inuit communities in the Arctic, are increasingly exposed to diverse stressors linked to rapid climate change and other anthropogenic changes. Identifying and understanding these stressors and their imp…
Who's got the global advantage? Visual field differences in processing of global and local shape
Masha Cerovic, Les enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques (1941‐1944)
The Soviet guerrilla movement was one of the strongest in history. Half a million fighters, who killed many tens of thousands of Germans, but also locals, derailed thousands of trains and demolished thousands of locomotives. Masha Cerovic provides a first‐rate, up‐to‐date history of their struggle. The strength of Cerovic’s study lies in its sources. While she rarely refers to postwar published memoirs, her work draws mainly on archival records o…
Claire Zalc et Tal Bruttmann (dir.) Microhistories of the Holocaust New York, Berghahn Books, 2017, IX-325 p
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Muskox Health Ecology Symposium 2016: Gathering to Share Knowledge on Umingmak in a Time of Rapid Change
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
Holocaust Landscapes
This book offers a fresh view at the German persecution of European Jews by looking at spatial aspects. Drawing from a wide range of archives, it is primarily based on diaries and published memoirs of, and especially postwar interviews with, persecuted Jews, supplemented by scholarly literature. The author concentrates on demonstrating ‘the diverse range of victim experiences, spatial strategies of survival and the shifting landscapes of the Holo…
Echoes of persecution: Sounds in early post-liberation Jewish memories
This article proposes sound history as an approach to the history of persecution. There are close relations between sounds, social relations, and social change, and sound has special physical and emotional qualities. On that basis, the article analyzes actions by perpetrators and persecuted Jews, as represented in survivor accounts. It argues that sounds reflected the brutal, emotional, and unmediated character of violence. Sounds also convey way…
Globale Machtkonflikte und Kriege: Festschrift für Stig Förster zum 65. Geburtstag
Diese Festschrift ist dem Historiker Stig Förster gewidmet, der sich insbesondere in der modernen Militärgeschichte und der Imperialismusforschung einen Namen gemacht hat. Mit der Betonung globaler Prozesse und dem Einbezug außereuropäischer Akteure nahm Förster bereits zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre einige der Kernelemente der Globalgeschichte vorweg. In diesem Band werden seine beiden Forschungsgebiete durch namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren zusammen…
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Annexations in Europe and the Persecution of Jews, 1939–1944
This contribution tries to explain why Jews were persecuted earlier or more fiercely in territories annexed by a state during World War II than in the mainland of that state. The case-studies covered are Nazi Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR. It is argued that internationally, similar policies of incorporation, especially the replacement of existing elites and the process of bringing in new settlers, worked against the Jews. Asid…
Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities. From killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombi…
Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality
Book Review| April 01 2010 Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality. Gary Holthaus. Craig Gerlach Craig Gerlach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 263–264. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.2.263 Cite Icon C…
Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s Through the 1970s
For over a century, various forms of crop cultivation, including family, community, and school gardens were a component of the foodways of many Alaska Native communities. This paper describes the history of these cropping practices in Athabascan communities of the Tanana and Yukon Flats regions of Alaska, and reveals a distinct agricultural tradition with roots that reach back as far as the late 1800s. Though American colonists, bureaucrats, and …
To ask other questions: Reply to Alex Hinton, Henry Huttenbach and Patrick Wolfe
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
Failure of Plans for an SS Extermination Camp in Mogilev, Belorussia
By autumn 1941 in most of the German-occupied USSR the last phase of the Holocaust had begun, with the exception of some ghettos in the Baltics and former Eastern Poland. Elsewhere the extermination would be almost total within three or four months. Only in a few places some Jews, together with political prisoners and hunger refugees, were concentrated in work camps; one of these was in the city of Mogilëv, in Eastern Belorussia. When most of the…
Bowhead Whale ( Balaena Mysticetus ) Length Estimations Based on Scapula Measurements
This study presents data and a method for reliably predicting bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) length using one length and one width measurement of the scapula. The bowhead scapula preserves well and is common in coastal arctic archaeological sites. The length measurement is taken as the maximum straight-line measurement along the axis, excluding the scapular cartilage. The width measurement is recorded as a maximum transverse measurement of the ossi…
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89
The Eskimos
Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s Through the 1970s
For over a century, various forms of crop cultivation, including family, community, and school gardens were a component of the foodways of many Alaska Native communities. This paper describes the history of these cropping practices in Athabascan communities of the Tanana and Yukon Flats regions of Alaska, and reveals a distinct agricultural tradition with roots that reach back as far as the late 1800s. Though American colonists, bureaucrats, and …
Echoes of persecution: Sounds in early post-liberation Jewish memories
This article proposes sound history as an approach to the history of persecution. There are close relations between sounds, social relations, and social change, and sound has special physical and emotional qualities. On that basis, the article analyzes actions by perpetrators and persecuted Jews, as represented in survivor accounts. It argues that sounds reflected the brutal, emotional, and unmediated character of violence. Sounds also convey way…
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89
The Eskimos
Bowhead Whale ( Balaena Mysticetus ) Length Estimations Based on Scapula Measurements
This study presents data and a method for reliably predicting bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) length using one length and one width measurement of the scapula. The bowhead scapula preserves well and is common in coastal arctic archaeological sites. The length measurement is taken as the maximum straight-line measurement along the axis, excluding the scapular cartilage. The width measurement is recorded as a maximum transverse measurement of the ossi…
Failure of Plans for an SS Extermination Camp in Mogilev, Belorussia
By autumn 1941 in most of the German-occupied USSR the last phase of the Holocaust had begun, with the exception of some ghettos in the Baltics and former Eastern Poland. Elsewhere the extermination would be almost total within three or four months. Only in a few places some Jews, together with political prisoners and hunger refugees, were concentrated in work camps; one of these was in the city of Mogilëv, in Eastern Belorussia. When most of the…
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
To ask other questions: Reply to Alex Hinton, Henry Huttenbach and Patrick Wolfe
Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities. From killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombi…
Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality
Book Review| April 01 2010 Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality. Gary Holthaus. Craig Gerlach Craig Gerlach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 263–264. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.2.263 Cite Icon C…
Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s Through the 1970s
For over a century, various forms of crop cultivation, including family, community, and school gardens were a component of the foodways of many Alaska Native communities. This paper describes the history of these cropping practices in Athabascan communities of the Tanana and Yukon Flats regions of Alaska, and reveals a distinct agricultural tradition with roots that reach back as far as the late 1800s. Though American colonists, bureaucrats, and …
Annexations in Europe and the Persecution of Jews, 1939–1944
This contribution tries to explain why Jews were persecuted earlier or more fiercely in territories annexed by a state during World War II than in the mainland of that state. The case-studies covered are Nazi Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR. It is argued that internationally, similar policies of incorporation, especially the replacement of existing elites and the process of bringing in new settlers, worked against the Jews. Asid…
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Globale Machtkonflikte und Kriege: Festschrift für Stig Förster zum 65. Geburtstag
Diese Festschrift ist dem Historiker Stig Förster gewidmet, der sich insbesondere in der modernen Militärgeschichte und der Imperialismusforschung einen Namen gemacht hat. Mit der Betonung globaler Prozesse und dem Einbezug außereuropäischer Akteure nahm Förster bereits zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre einige der Kernelemente der Globalgeschichte vorweg. In diesem Band werden seine beiden Forschungsgebiete durch namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren zusammen…
Muskox Health Ecology Symposium 2016: Gathering to Share Knowledge on Umingmak in a Time of Rapid Change
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
Holocaust Landscapes
This book offers a fresh view at the German persecution of European Jews by looking at spatial aspects. Drawing from a wide range of archives, it is primarily based on diaries and published memoirs of, and especially postwar interviews with, persecuted Jews, supplemented by scholarly literature. The author concentrates on demonstrating ‘the diverse range of victim experiences, spatial strategies of survival and the shifting landscapes of the Holo…
Echoes of persecution: Sounds in early post-liberation Jewish memories
This article proposes sound history as an approach to the history of persecution. There are close relations between sounds, social relations, and social change, and sound has special physical and emotional qualities. On that basis, the article analyzes actions by perpetrators and persecuted Jews, as represented in survivor accounts. It argues that sounds reflected the brutal, emotional, and unmediated character of violence. Sounds also convey way…
Masha Cerovic, Les enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques (1941‐1944)
The Soviet guerrilla movement was one of the strongest in history. Half a million fighters, who killed many tens of thousands of Germans, but also locals, derailed thousands of trains and demolished thousands of locomotives. Masha Cerovic provides a first‐rate, up‐to‐date history of their struggle. The strength of Cerovic’s study lies in its sources. While she rarely refers to postwar published memoirs, her work draws mainly on archival records o…
Claire Zalc et Tal Bruttmann (dir.) Microhistories of the Holocaust New York, Berghahn Books, 2017, IX-325 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who's got the global advantage? Visual field differences in processing of global and local shape
Documenting Indigenous Knowledge to Identify and Understand the Stressors of Muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatu s) in Nunavut, Canada
Indigenous knowledge provides valuable information on wildlife health and ecology, contributing to a broader understanding of the patterns and phenomena observed. Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), an important species for the subsistence and culture of Inuit communities in the Arctic, are increasingly exposed to diverse stressors linked to rapid climate change and other anthropogenic changes. Identifying and understanding these stressors and their imp…
The face inversion effect or the face upright effect
The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects. This has been taken as evidence that processing of faces and objects differ qualitatively. However, nearly all FIE studies are based on comparing individuation of upright faces, which most people are rather good at, with individuation of objects most people are much …
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