Anthropology: A Continental PerspectiveUniversity of Chicago Press, 8 apr 2013 - 408 pagina's Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it. |
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Core Issues of Anthropology
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Single Discipline and TransdisciplinaryResearch | 291 |
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actions aesthetic anthropological research areas Arnold Gehlen aspects become behavior Berlin birth bodily brain Cambridge central Christoph Wulf concept context create cultural anthropology death defined definition Dietmar Kamper discipline diversity ethnographic evolution experience field field research find findings first focus Frankfurt am Main Gehlen gender genetic Germany gestures globalization Gunter Gebauer Helmuth Plessner historical and cultural historical cultural anthropology Homo erectus Homo rudolfensis Homo sapiens human body images imaginary imagination individual influence interaction interpretation investigate issues Jorg Zirfas language learning linked living means mental million years ago mimesis mimetic processes Munich nature Neanderthals neoteny objects Paragrana Paris perception Performativen perspectives Philippe Aries philosophical philosophical anthropology Pierre Bourdieu Plessner reflection relate relationship result rituals Routledge sacred sciences scientific sense significance social society specific staging and performance structure studies Suhrkamp symbolic theory tion Trabant understanding University Press Wilhelm Fink York