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Christoph Wulf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • towards a Historical cultural Anthropology
    Social Science Research Network, 2018
    Co-Authors: Christoph Wulf
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    In today's globalized world, Anthropology is a transdisciplinary and trans-cultural field of research. In the concept proposed here, it encompasses five paradigms: 1) hominization/ evolution, 2) philosophical Anthropology, 3) Historical Anthropology/mentality research, 4) cultural Anthropology, 5) Historical cultural Anthropology. Anthropology contributes to the understanding of the human being at the beginning of the 21st century. The discipline is characterized by a double historicity and culturality; it encompasses a great variety of research questions, methods and approaches, and includes philosophical thinking and self-criticism.

  • on Historical Anthropology an introduction
    The Senses and Society, 2016
    Co-Authors: Christoph Wulf
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    AbstractThe Anthropology of sound is an important field of research in musicology as well as in cultural studies, in sociology and not the least in ethnology. When we talk about Anthropology, most people in the English-speaking world think of ethnology. In my view this reduces Anthropology to only one of its paradigms. Today it no longer seems meaningful to limit Anthropology to ethnology as the study of so-called primitive peoples, tribal societies, and simple societies or to ethnographic research in modern societies. I propose a more comprehensive concept of Anthropology as Historical cultural Anthropology covering four different paradigms. My aim is to develop a few of the principles and perspectives of Anthropology, comparing and contrasting them with those emerging from research on evolution, philosophical Anthropology in Germany, Historical Anthropology in France, and cultural Anthropology in the United States and Europe, while also drawing on my own research during the last 30 years.

  • das ratsel des humanen eine einfuhrung in die historische anthropologie the riddle of man an introduction to Historical Anthropology
    Social Science Research Network, 2013
    Co-Authors: Christoph Wulf
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    German Abstract Anders als ihre Vorgangerinnen ist historische Anthropologie nicht »jene Deutung des Menschen, die im Grunde schon weis, was der Mensch ist und daher nie fragen kann, wer er sei.« (Heidegger). Der Ratselcharakter des Humanen erwachst vielmehr aus der je unvollstandigen Verstandlichkeit des Menschen fur den Menschen. Er entsteht z. B. im Zusammen- und Gegenspiel von Korper und Geist, Seele und Liebe, Mensch und Welt. Wie Menschen mit dieser Ratselhaftigkeit umgehen, ist in verschiedenen Kulturen und historischen Epochen sehr unterschiedlich. Heute kann die historische Anthropologie aber plausibel machen, dass Seele, Geist und Liebe keine vom Korper unabhangige Existenz haben, dass sich aber entlang solcher unhintergehbaren Korperlichkeit eigenstandige Phanomene des Imaginaren gebildet haben, die mit Begriffen wie »Seele«, »Geist« und »Liebe« historisch je unterschiedlich umschrieben werden. English Abstract Unlike its predecessors, Historical Anthropology is not “that interpretation of man that essentially already knows what man is and can therefore never ask who he is” (Heidegger). What is enigmatic about man is rather due to the fact that we fail to make sense of ourselves. Those riddles arise for example from the interaction and counteraction between body and mind, between soul and love, between man and his environment. How people deal with this mysteriousness differs strongly across cultures and across Historical eras. Yet Historical Anthropology can today substantiate that the soul, the mind and love do not exist independently of the body; rather, they have formed independent phenomena of the imaginary sphere.

  • introduction children development and education a dialogue between cultural psychology and Historical Anthropology
    International perspectives on early childhood education and development, 2011
    Co-Authors: Michalis Kontopodis, Christoph Wulf, Bernd Fichtner
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    In the following introduction to the edited volume Children, Development and Education the reader is introduced to two schools of thought: Historical Anthropology – a revision of the German philosophical Anthropology under the influences of the French Historical school of Annales and the Anglo-Saxon cultural Anthropology – and cultural-Historical psychology – a school of thought which emerged in the context of the Soviet revolution and deeply affected the discipline of psychology in the twentieth century. Four significant and interrelated motions of thought, common in both of these schools, are briefly described under the labels: (a) subjectivity, (b) performativity, (c) infans absconditus, and (d) historicity. The introduction emphasizes the primacy of language and signs for the constitution of human subjectivity and the dramatic aspects of child development and examines the symbolic and performative aspects of ritual practices which play a central role in child-rearing, education, and the socialization of children. The impossibility of representation of children and childhood is also discussed and the epistemological position of double culturality and historicity, which enables cultural-Historical scholars to reflect on the cultural-Historical specificity of their own discourses and methodologies, is briefly outlined. Furthermore, the introduction emphasizes the importance of Historical analysis in the context of a broader understanding of history as an ongoing open-ended process and of human development as a process of purposeful collaborative transformation (Stetsenko, 2008). The introduction concludes with a brief presentation of the two main parts of the edited book – which is expected to contribute significantly to what can be called “cultural-Historical science.”

  • after the death of man from philosophical Anthropology to Historical Anthropology
    IRIS, 2009
    Co-Authors: Gunter Gebauer, Christoph Wulf
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    The first part of the article (§§ 1-3) illustrates the critical relation the authors establish with the leading figures of philosophical Anthropology in terms of their engagement with “world-openness” (Weltoffenheit). This notion cannot be reduced to the objectivity that confronts man as a spiritual being, as in Max Scheler, but rather makes it possible to grasp the limits of distancing objectification; in Arnold Gehlen, the coercion to action derived from the indeterminacy of man’s relation with the world is not sufficient to comprehend the role of culture for the constitution of the human animal itself; and with the biological means utilized by Helmuth Plessner it is not possible to account entirely for the human capacity to establish relations by means of society. Historical Anthropology, as the second part (§§ 4-5) of the article shows, aims to respond to such deficiencies by bringing to light the numerous Historical and cultural forms of openness to a plurality of worlds. Freeing itself of any abstract and binding anthropological norm that claims to define the essence of man, Historical Anthropology investigates human structures and phenomena through a series of transdisciplinary studies centering on themes such as the body, ritual, mimesis and the performative dimension in its entirety, performance and performativity.

David Nugent - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • property relations production relations and inequality Anthropology political economy and the blackfeet
    American Ethnologist, 1993
    Co-Authors: David Nugent
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    Political-economic concepts that privilege production over other dimensions of social life are inappropriate to the study of non-Western societies. Concepts suitable for non-Western societies must be based on the institutional specificity of those societies, just as production-based concepts (forces and relations of production) derive their analytical value from the institutional structure of industrial capitalism. In this article, “property relations” is advanced as such a concept and is used to explain the emergence of inequality from egalitarian social relations among the Blackfeet Indians on the northern plains of North America. [political economy, property relations, Historical Anthropology, legal Anthropology, inequality, gender relations]

Dittmar Schorkowitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Historical Anthropology in eurasia and the way thither
    History and Anthropology, 2012
    Co-Authors: Dittmar Schorkowitz
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    This contribution reconsiders various notions and conceptions of Historical Anthropology as a tool to enhance our knowledge and understanding of social and cultural processes. Different ways of conducting historico-anthropological studies are explored in order to determine which perspectives may be applied to Eurasia. The approaches discussed include ethnoHistorical research, studies of transformation and persistence of social organization and cultural identity, interethnic relations, and relations between ethnic minorities and the state. With respect to methodological and theoretical implications inherent in the interdisciplinary relationship between history and Anthropology, a concise outline of the new Max Planck Institute focus group's research is given. A framework is thus provided for discussing arguments that focus on the need to establish a new format of (post-)colonial studies adjusted to the peculiarities of this macro-region, entailing a close cooperation with ethnologists from Russia, the Comm...

J D Y Peel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • for who hath despised the day of small things missionary narratives and Historical Anthropology
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1995
    Co-Authors: J D Y Peel
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    When anthropologists come to examine the role of Christian missionaries in the transformation of non-Western societies, as they have done increasingly over the past decade, they soon become deeply embroiled in debates about narrative. Most obvious and immediate are the written and published narratives in which missionaries report their activities, providing the single most important source of data. But the more fundamental issues lie beyond: They have to do with the role of narrative in the social transformation itself, and eventually with the place of narrative in the ethnographic account that Anthropology sets itself to produce. In this essay, which arises from a larger project on the encounter of religions in nineteenth-century Yorubaland, the focus of the argument will move through several levels of narrative, but it will start and finish with an argument that demonstrates why narrative is so important for the achievement of a properly Historical Anthropology.

Neil L Whitehead - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the Historical Anthropology of text the interpretation of ralegh s discoverie of guiana
    Current Anthropology, 1995
    Co-Authors: Neil L Whitehead
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    Les lectures anthropologiques d'une part, litteraires et historiques d'autre part, de textes coloniaux se sont limitees soit a une classe speciale d'evenements (les premiers contacts) soit a la production limitee de textes plutot que d'approcher les donnees d'archives. L'ouvrage « Discoverie of Guiana » de Ralegh illustre comment les lectures anthropologiques peuvent a la fois etendre les significations du texte et reveler le « con-texte » indigene de sa production. Ce dernier est utilise de maniere reflexive pour l'etude de la relation du texte et du testament dans « Discoverie ». Une telle anthropologie historique repond a la question theorique de la representation en anthropologie depuis qu'elle est liee aux problemes de l'epistemologie historiographique et ethnographique