Anthropology and Ethnology During World War II: Jagiellonian Studies in Cultural Anthropology

The volume presents a collection of texts describing the results of contemporary research into the documentation of the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of Institut fr Deutsche Ostarbeit ( IDO) - a Nazi-led institution which was establish in occupied Poland during World War II.
The research project is carried now by anthropologists from Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology together with representatives of other disciplines: historians, sociologists and physical anthropologists from Jagiellonian University. The studies and papers are based on an analysis of a vast body of documents and photographs. It is first of all a vast collection of sources connected with research carried out by Sektion Rassen-und Volkstumsforschung IDO, kept at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The authors refer as well to previously unknown documents discovered during queries conducted over the last few years. The available sources provided a greater insight into the knowledge concerning the activity of Institut fr Deutsche Ostarbeit as well as made it possible to verify the existing information concerning the character of research carried out by Sektion Rassen-und Volkstumsforschung.
The book contains a rich number of illustrations. Photographs, medical and anthropological questionnaires, psychological tests, questionnaires containing sociological and ethnographic information not only visualize, but in a significant way complement the text of the publication.