1993, ISBN: 9780253318213

Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page v… Mehr…

Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but pages are overall clean and clear.). Black cloth boards, silver spine lettering; color illustrated dj with burgundy lettering; xx, 354 pp, bw illustrations. "This volume explores the involvement of German and Austrian folklorists with the institutions and ideology of the Third Reich. In his introduction, James Dow traces the roots of this Nazification of folklore to the Nazis' exploitation of eighteenth-century concepts and philosophies. Contributors examine the establishment of folklore departments at German and Austrian universities during the National Socialist era; the perversion of the discipline for political ends by the government; and the attempt to establish a pan-German Reich Institute as an instrument of a fascist ideology. The establishment of departments of Volkskunde offered scholars the opportunity to broaden the base of their discipline. Ambition led many to implicitly and explicitly support the aims of their Nazi benefactors. Although not all the scholars in positions of authority were Party members, most became tools of a regime obsessed with its own racist mythology. In the postwar years there was no attempt to investigate this abuse of folklore. Instead, a legend of two folklores evolved - one of a racially biased and tainted discipline and one of a discipline that maintained itself above Nazi aims and manipulations. Here German and Austrian scholars examine this long-unexplored past in recent essays, now made available to the English-speaking world. Also included are previously unpublished documents that laid the groundwork for the National Socialists' perversion of folklore."-dj. Contents include: Folklore and national socialism : questions for further investigation / Helge Gerndt -- Nazi folk ideology and folk research / Hermann Bausinger -- The mythos of Germanic continuity / Wolfgang Emmerich -- ". . . but when does the prewar begin?" : folklore and fascism before and around 1933 / Hermann Strobach -- Nazi conceptions of culture and the erasure of Jewish folklore / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Folk-national work during the Third Reich / Hermann Bausinger -- The Weigel Symbol Archive and the ideology of national socialist folklore / Rolf Wilhelm Brednich -- Eugene Fehrle and "the mythos of our folk" / Peter Assion -- The battle for the "Ostmark" : Nazi folklore in Austria / Olaf Bockhorn -- Folklore at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg at the time of the Nazi takeover / Helmut Eberhart -- The Office of Ancestral Inheritance and Folklore Scholarship / Anka Oesterle.; Confronting national socialism in the folklore of the German Democratic Republic / Wolfgang Jacobeit -- Epilogue : overcoming the past of national socialistic folklore / James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld., Indiana University Press, 1993, 3<

1993, ISBN: 9780253318213

Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page ve… Mehr…

Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but pages are overall clean and clear.). Black cloth boards, silver spine lettering; color illustrated dj with burgundy lettering; xx, 354 pp, bw illustrations. "This volume explores the involvement of German and Austrian folklorists with the institutions and ideology of the Third Reich. In his introduction, James Dow traces the roots of this Nazification of folklore to the Nazis' exploitation of eighteenth-century concepts and philosophies. Contributors examine the establishment of folklore departments at German and Austrian universities during the National Socialist era; the perversion of the discipline for political ends by the government; and the attempt to establish a pan-German Reich Institute as an instrument of a fascist ideology. The establishment of departments of Volkskunde offered scholars the opportunity to broaden the base of their discipline. Ambition led many to implicitly and explicitly support the aims of their Nazi benefactors. Although not all the scholars in positions of authority were Party members, most became tools of a regime obsessed with its own racist mythology. In the postwar years there was no attempt to investigate this abuse of folklore. Instead, a legend of two folklores evolved - one of a racially biased and tainted discipline and one of a discipline that maintained itself above Nazi aims and manipulations. Here German and Austrian scholars examine this long-unexplored past in recent essays, now made available to the English-speaking world. Also included are previously unpublished documents that laid the groundwork for the National Socialists' perversion of folklore."-dj. Contents include: Folklore and national socialism : questions for further investigation / Helge Gerndt -- Nazi folk ideology and folk research / Hermann Bausinger -- The mythos of Germanic continuity / Wolfgang Emmerich -- ". . . but when does the prewar begin?" : folklore and fascism before and around 1933 / Hermann Strobach -- Nazi conceptions of culture and the erasure of Jewish folklore / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Folk-national work during the Third Reich / Hermann Bausinger -- The Weigel Symbol Archive and the ideology of national socialist folklore / Rolf Wilhelm Brednich -- Eugene Fehrle and "the mythos of our folk" / Peter Assion -- The battle for the "Ostmark" : Nazi folklore in Austria / Olaf Bockhorn -- Folklore at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg at the time of the Nazi takeover / Helmut Eberhart -- The Office of Ancestral Inheritance and Folklore Scholarship / Anka Oesterle.; Confronting national socialism in the folklore of the German Democratic Republic / Wolfgang Jacobeit -- Epilogue : overcoming the past of national socialistic folklore / James R. Dow and Hannjost Lixfeld., Indiana University Press, 1993, 3<

1994, ISBN: 9780253318213

Gebundene Ausgabe

Hardcover, 354pp. Slight sun-fading to jacket along edges. Otherwise a very nice copy. Jacket in a brodart protective wrapper., Very good/very good, [ED: 1], third reich volkskunde|Folklo… Mehr…

Hardcover, 354pp. Slight sun-fading to jacket along edges. Otherwise a very nice copy. Jacket in a brodart protective wrapper., Very good/very good, [ED: 1], third reich volkskunde|Folklore, Fairy Tales & Social History, [PU: Indiana Univ Pr]<

1994, ISBN: 9780253318213

Indiana Univ Pr, 1994-04. Hardcover. Good., Indiana Univ Pr, 1994-04, 2.5