Abstract
Publication Language: German. Title translated: Symbolic anthropology of modernity. Cultural analyses after Clifford Geertz. Keywords: Geertz, C., symbolic anthropology, thick description, culture analysis, modernity, meaning, hermeneutics. Contents:
MOERTH, INGO & GERHARD FROEHLICH: Searching for the "informal logic of actual life".
ZIEGLER, MEINRAD: Reflections of the research logic of a methodological nonconformist.
DWORSCHAK, HELMUT: On the problem of intercultural
understanding.
STAUBMANN, HELMUT: Societal background of deception
strategies.
WALLMANNSBERGER, JOSEF: Geertz being questioned.
ELLRICH, LUTZ: Pomp and charisma. On the poetics of power. MOSER, JOHANNES: On cultural meanings of work.
HELMERS, SABINE: Digital cock fights. On the ethnography
of computer virtuosi.
MIKLAUTZ, ELFIE: Giving gifts as symbolic action.
RUSSO, MANFRED: Fashion and body images of Punks, Skins and Hooligans.
WASNER, BARBARA: Ethnomethodology and symbolic worlds of meaning.
KRASBERG, ULRIKE: Pregnancy with the apple. A thick description of "cultural truth".
GIRTLER, ROLAND: The honor of the rebel. The "risk" of the ethnographer and the "artificial poacher" Mathias Schwarz.
MOERTH, INGO & GERHARD FROEHLICH:
Twelve languages, seven disciplines, five continents: A comprehensive bibliography of Clifford Geertz
| Translated title of the contribution | Symbolic anthropology of modernity. Cultural analyses after Clifford Geertz |
|---|---|
| Original language | German (Austria) |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 |
Fields of science
- 504001 General sociology
- 605004 Cultural studies
- 504017 Cultural anthropology