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• eBook available Published May 2026

  Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

  German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

  Weber, A. D. (ed)

  Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.

  Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

  
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• eBook available Forthcoming September 2026

  Punks and Skins United

  Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

  Venstel, A.

  Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

  
  
• eBook available Published December 2022

  When Will We Talk About Hitler?

  German Students and the Nazi Past

  Oeser, A.

  What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

  Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

  
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• eBook available Published May 2020

  Back to the Postindustrial Future

  An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

  Ringel, F.

  Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

  
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• eBook available Published June 2021

  Narratives in the Making

  Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

  Gallinat, A.

  This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

  
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• eBook available Published October 2013

  Berlin, Alexanderplatz

  Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

  Weszkalnys, G.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

  
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• Published December 2002

  Identities

  Time, Difference and Boundaries

  Friese, H. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

  
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