AAAdvances in Anthropology2163-9353Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/aa.2014.41005AA-43024ArticlesSocial Sciences&Humanities The Caucus as an Anthropological Topos ansjörgRothe1*1Klinikum Coburg, Coburg, Germany 2Danube University Krems, Division of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria* E-mail:hansjoerg.rothe@kfh-dialyse.de2701201404013840September 28th, 2013October 27th, 2013 November 25th, 2013© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Certain historical events may be driven by anthropological topoi surfacing from layers below culture and society, once the structures of society and culture allow for that to happen. Difficulties in finding a suitable term to describe a historical event may hint at such a situation. The events in autumn 1989 in the German Democratic Republic, often referred to as “peaceful revolution”, are analyzed in this regard and it is argued that in essence this was a spontaneous caucus.

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