ISBN:
3110402971
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (311 S.)
Ausgabe:
1. Aufl.
Serie:
De Gruyter Textbook
Serie:
De Gruyter Textbook Ser
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Bachmann-Medick, Doris, 1952 - Cultural turns
DDC:
306.01
Schlagwort(e):
Culture ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Kulturwissenschaften
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Paradigmenwechsel
Kurzfassung:
This book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural turns - groundbreaking theoretical reorientations in the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences. It features chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns while introducing emerging developments. This translation of a revised German classic is the first synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world. Doris Bachmann-Medick, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) / University of Giessen, Germany.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Acknowledgements ; Table of Contents ; Introduction: Cultural Turns - New Orientations in the Study of Culture ; 1 Mapping the Study of Culture - German and Anglo-American Discourses ; The "Field" of the Study of Culture ; The Transformation of Theory - A Paradigm Shift?
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Refiguration through "Blurred Genres" New Orientations through "Heightened Scholarly Awareness"? ; Turns - A Shift from Object of Study to Analytical Category ; 2 Changing Currents of Theory - Changing Pioneering Disciplines ; The Linguistic Turn
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cultural Turns after the Linguistic Turn The Impact of the Turn Orientations on the Study of Culture ; References ; Chapter I: The Interpretive Turn ; 1 The Formation of the Interpretive Turn ; 2 The Meaning-Oriented Concept of Culture
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Methodological Approaches: Synecdochic Mode, Contextualization, Thick Description 3 The Metaphor of "Culture as Text" ; Self-Interpretation ; Critical Positions ; 4 The Interpretive Turn in Different Disciplines ; 5 The Interpretive Turn as "Cultural Critique" ; References
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter II: The Performative Turn 1 The Formation of the Performative Turn ; 2 The Anthropological Analysis of Ritual - An Impetus for the Performative Turn ; 3 Liminality and Cultural Innovation ; Ritual ; Social Drama ; 4 The Performative Turn in Different Disciplines
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5 Further Developments of the Performative Approach
Anmerkung:
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