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This award-winning classic in the study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction (on which Eric Wolf collaborated near the end of his life) that shows the continuing validity of the book’s innovative approach to ethnography, ecology, culture, and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages―the German-speaking community of St. Felix and Romance-speaking Tret―only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.

In Austria, what is generally referred to as Heimat (home or homeland) photographyfeatured local sights: peasants, churchgoers, skiers and rural alpine landscapes.As these traditional, romanticized images came to be identified with the ideaof a nation, they were used by the Standestaat of 1930s Austria to promote anational identity that grew into fascism. Author Elizabeth Cronin proposes toconsider the history of the genre as a whole in this study that utilizes selectionsfrom the collections from the Albertina and Photoinstitut Bonartes to exploreHeimat photography as a crucial part of 1930s visual culture. Her essaysdiscuss the work of the genre s principal exponents Rudolf Koppitz, Peter PaulAtzwanger, Simon Moser, Stefan Kruckenhauser, Wilhelm Angerer, Hans Angerer,Hans W. Hannau and Adalbert Defner. This telling research into the power ofimagery allows us to see how images can be easily manipulated and redefineddepending on the political climate of a time and the forces in power.