{"product_id":"heinrich-himmlers-cultural-commissions-james-dow-9780299316501","title":"Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions: Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia","description":"German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance), folklore became a tool for constructing a unified German realm and a manufactured lineage from ancient and \"pure\" Germanic and Nordic blood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive research in public and private archives and interviews with family members of fieldworkers, James R. Dow uncovers both details of the SS cultural commissions' work and the continuing vestiges of the materials they assembled. Teams of poorly qualified and ideologically motivated collectors were sent to South Tyrol in Italy and Gottschee in Slovenian Yugoslavia, from which ethnically German communities were to be resettled in the German Reich. Although a mass of information on narratives, songs and dances, beliefs, customs, local clothing and architecture, and folk speech was collected, the research was deeply tainted and skewed by racialist and nationalist preconditions. Dow sharply critiques the continued use of these ersatz archives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Dow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299316505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299316501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"James Dow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119536959743,"sku":"9780299316501","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f89808f5-79f8-4f0f-a294-9da0c9767c62.jpg?v=1687409834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heinrich-himmlers-cultural-commissions-james-dow-9780299316501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}