Die Siedlungsgemeinschaft
Grundriß der essentialistischen Ethnologie
By (author) Klaus E. Müller
Hardback (Published)
(February 2010)
ISBN: 9783899715729
6.46 x 9.69 inches
Price: $150.00
On back order
English summary: The starting point of this portrayal of settlement communities is village communities as they existed for at least 10,000 years before advanced civilisation. Given their cultural similarities, they are suitable as model groups, as they also allow us to draw conclusions about earlier and later, more complex or advanced models of societies. With its manual-style layout, the volume takes into account all areas of cultural expression. The key approaches are ethnocentricism and, ensuing from that, a dualistic world view. For the first time in cultural sciences, the general principles of group behaviour and conceptual formations are named and sets of rules derived from them. The fundamental hypothesis is that development is subject to an irreversible process of differentiation, setting out from a close bond between humans and their environment, then moving progressively through differentiation, dissociation, alienation, growing complexity and, finally, to uncontrollability, which then leads to downfall. German text. German description: Grundlage dieser Darstellung von Siedlungsgemeinschaften sind vorhochkulturliche Dorfgesellschaften, wie sie gut 10.000 Jahre lang bestanden. Sie eignen sich wegen ihrer kulturellen Gemeinsamkeiten als Modellgruppen, die Ruckschlusse auch auf fruhere wie spatere, komplexere (hochkulturliche) Gesellschaftstypen erlauben. Als Handbuch aufgebaut, berucksichtigt die Arbeit alle Ausdrucksbereiche der Kultur. Den Schlusselansatz bilden die ethnozentrische Einstellung und die daraus folgende dualistische Weltauffassung. Erstmals in den Kulturwissenschaften werden die allgemeinen Prinzipien des Gruppenverhaltens und der Vorstellungsbildung benannt und daraus Regelsatze abgeleitet. Die grundlegende These ist, dass die Entwicklung einem irreversiblen Differenzierungsprozess unterliegt, der von der ursprunglich engen Verbundenheit von Mensch und Umwelt zu fortschreitender Differenzierung, Dissozierung, Entfremdung, wachsender Komplexitat und zuletzt Unkontrollierbarkeit, das heisst in den Untergang fuhrt.
Dr. Klaus E. Müller war Professor für Ethnologie an der Universität Frankfurt am Main. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Verhaltens-, Religions- und Kognitionsethnologie.
Dr. Klaus E. Müller was Professor for Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt-am-Main. His research specialities are behavioural, religious and cognitive ethnology.
- By (author) Klaus E. Müller
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