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Submitted by: Liz Ten Dyke <etendyke@email.gc.cuny.edu> As one of very few anthropologists who subscribe to this list I would like to add my shock and regret at the announcement of the proposed (or planned?) closing of the Max Planck institute in Goettingen. I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Alf Luedtke there once as my dissertation advisor, Dr. Gerald Sider, has been a friend and colleague of Dr. Luedtke for many years. Their relationship is evidence of a long standing and fruitful collaboration not only between a German historian and an American anthropologist but also between Alltagsgeschichte and American cultural anthropology. While the rapprochement between history and anthropology has generated many controversies and sub-disciplinary divisions on both sides of the Atlantic it has also been an extremely fruitful collaboration and the institute itself has provided many American anthropologists with opportunities for research, study and sojourn in Germany at critical junctures in their careers. The loss of the institute would not only be a loss for German history, it would be a loss for the American scholars, both historians and anthropologists, whose ideas and scholarly work have benefited from the theoretical and methodological innovations that came to light in Goettingen. Liz Ten Dyke Department of Anthropology Hunter College etendyke@email.gc.cuny.edu
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