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The articles in this volume represent anthropological approaches to the study of external and internal boundaries in Europe. The authors raise fascinating methodological and empirical questions by approaching European societies from the perspective of a discipline usually working on the basis of greater cultural distance between scholars and the objects of their research. Moreover, the volume tackles a subject usually understood as a political project and a political problem, E.U. Europe, in an original non-political-science perspective. The volume's case studies are all based on bottom-up views of Europe, with fieldwork the methodology of choice. The first articles focus on institutions. Cris Shore and Daniela Baratieri's article focuses on the ambivalent results of attempts by European schools, which cater mainly to Eurocrats in Brussels and Luxemburg, to replace nationalism with a sense of European identity or nationhood, while Gregory Feldman discusses Estonian programs for the integration of Russian-speakers and Davide Però addresses the position of Italy's left-wing parties and public to the "new immigration." While these essays argue that "Europe" may not be as destructive to national (institutional) boundaries or the nation state as is often supposed, the next block of articles tackles migration across boundaries in a more conventional perspective, focusing on particular immigrant groups. Helen Kopnina discusses Russians in London and Amsterdam, while Christina Moutsou focuses upon immigrants in Brussels and Jacqueline Waldren examines Bosnians in Mallorca. To me, the case study of Turkish migrants in West Berlin by Sabine Mannitz is particularly intriguing, because it uses the peculiar experience of a lesson on Jews' fate in the Holocaust in which the teacher cast immigrants as permanent outsiders in Germany to explore pupils' sense of boundaries, and the East-German West-German divide appeared to loom much larger for immigrants than that between foreigners and Germans. The last section focuses on concrete and contested boundaries in European states and towns: William F. Kelleher, Jr. discusses Northern Ireland, Greek towns are the focus of Venetia Evergeti and Eleftheria Deltsou's article and South Tyrol is examined by Jaro Stacul. The volume makes for diverse and diversifying reading, and can only be highly recommended to anyone interested in innovative perspectives on the fate of the European project.
Rezension zu: H.-M. von Kaenel and F. Kemmers (eds.). 2009. Coins in Context I: New Perspectives for the Interpretation of Coin Finds. Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike 23 (Mainz: von Zabern).
Rezension zu: Raimon Graells i Fabregat (Coord.), El valor social i comercial de la vaixella metàllica al Mediterrani centre-occidental durant la protohitòria in: Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent 16-17, 2006-2007, 257-340 <81 pages, 65 illustrations. Edited by Secció d’Arqueologia, Prehistoria i Història Antiga, Departament d’Història, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida. ISSN: 1131-883-X>
Das in der von KAI BRODERSEN, UWE A. OSTER, THOMAS SCHARFF und UTE SCHNEIDER herausgegebenen Reihe „Geschichte erzählt“ erschienene Werk erhebt bereits in der Einleitung (7-8) keinen geringen Anspruch: Einerseits will THOMAS GANSCHOW (fortan: G.) mit Blick auf verschiedene Aspekte kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen in die Welt der Antike einführen. Zum anderen geht es ihm darum, „den Leser mit der Kriegspropaganda vergangener Zeiten vertraut [zu] machen und zum Nachdenken an[zu]regen, ob uns das Feindbild, das die Griechen und Römer von ihren Gegnern entwarfen, nicht irgendwie vertraut vorkommt“ (8). Dieses Ziel versucht G. in vier nur lose miteinander vernetzten thematischen Blöcken (10-48: „Feindbilder“; 50-106: „Vom mythischen Helden zur Berufsarmee“; 108-126: „Götter und Gesetze“; 128-153: „Der Preis des Krieges“) zu erreichen. Dabei richtet er sich, ganz offensichtlich auch den Zielvorstellungen der Gesamtreihe verpflichtet, an einen weiteren Kreis allgemein geschichtsinteressierter Leser. Da G. im Zuge seiner Darstellung jedoch naturgemäß auch aktuelle Fragestellungen der antiken Militär- und Kulturgeschichte sowie der bildwissenschaftlich orientierten Klassischen Archäologie berührt, soll sein ambitioniertes Projekt hier im Detail gewürdigt werden.