The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath: German and Austrian Kulturpolitik of Knowledge on Southeast Europe and Albania

Albert Doja

doi:10.5771/0038-6073-2014-3-317

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- 277–367 Aufsätze 277–367
  - 277–294 Wenn Mitarbeiter als Konsumenten produktiv sind Viola Muster Viola Muster 277–294
  - 295–315 Vernähungen – schönheitschirurgische Praxen als Grenzverletzung und -(wieder)herstellungen im ‚surgical passing‘. Eine kritische Reflektion Regina Klein Regina Klein 295–315
  - 317–343 The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath: German and Austrian Kulturpolitik of Knowledge on Southeast Europe and Albania Albert Doja Albert Doja 317–343
  - 345–367 Fairnessnormen, Sanktionsmacht und soziale Kontrolle bei Bonuszahlungen in Unternehmen Martin Wienhold, Knut Petzold Martin Wienhold, Knut Petzold 345–367
- 369–370 Abstracts 369–370
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The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath: German and Austrian Kulturpolitik of Knowledge on Southeast Europe and Albania

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Albert Doja

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0038-6073-2014-3-317
- ISSN: 0038-6073
- ISSN online: 2942-3414
Abstract

In this paper I aim to contribute to the debate about hegemonic relations between the West European “core” and Southeast European “margins”, by showing the links between mutually challenged and engendered quasi-anthropological traditions in the totalitarian projects of nation-building and empire-building. New aspects of a continuous resonance will be addressed regarding a politically instrumentalized German-writing tradition of Volks- and Völkerkunde grounded in Herderian Romanticism and the imperial ambitions of the nineteenth century. In the course of discussion, the successive German traditions of National-Socialist Volkskunde and Communist East German Ethnographie until the revised tradition of Europäische Ethnologie in the 1990s are shown to operate from a historicist tradition rather than from a critical tradition as a reflexive successor to former Volkskunde. In this discussion particular attention is given to contextualizing the historical and current production of knowledge by the German and Austrian “West” on a Southeast Europeanand Albanian culture, which is reduced to its archaic or pre-modern “traditions” and its specific or antiquated “mentalities”.
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