"Ich Kenne Jeden Stein Mit Vornamen" History, Heritage, and Discourses of Power in Schwabisch Hall, Baden-Wurttemberg

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Andrews, Anthony

Keywords

Anthropology, Archaeology, Heritage, Power, Germany, Schwabisch Hall, Reformation

Area of Concentration

Anthropology

Abstract

Ideology, or mind-set, is the set of mental constructs that are embedded in the context in which people operate as a part of their daily lives: it is the things which are taken for granted and assumed to be true. All aspects of life, from food to medicine to religious practice to social interaction, are mediated in one way or another by ideology, which restricts actions and perspectives to a certain number of possibilities. Dominant ideologies necessarily silence non-dominant ones, and anthropology is particularly suited to uncover, deconstruct, and critique these cultural constructions. This project identifies features of the dominant ideology in Schwabisch Hall, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany as it operated between AD 1500-1750, deconstructs its message of explicit and severe class-based discrimination, and linkages between the socioeconomic elite and local religious institutions, and examines the ways in which this ideology is embedded in those portions of the built landscape which date from that period, and which functioned as symbols of this ideology. Furthermore, this project compares those Reformation-period messages with the symbolic meanings of those same structures and spaces in modern times, and analyzes what this difference means for the place of heritage and the past in the modern dialogue in Schwabisch Hall.

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