The Experience of Culture: Approaches to an Ethnography of the Immediate in Complex Relations
The Experience of Culture: Approaches to an Ethnography of the Immediate in Complex Relations
Author(s): Bernhard TschofenSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: European ethnology; sensuous ethnography; body; heritage; knowledge;
Summary/Abstract: "Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 2lst century" the theme of the 20l5 SIEF conference calls for questions: Do any new challenges for ethnography even exist in the 2lst century? Has ethnography not always had to overcome contradictions between a utopian character of culture and the everyday? Beginning with a brief glance at the changes in European ethnology's conceptions of culture, this paper discusses themes and ways of studying corporeal and sensory practices in everyday culture. Studies from sport, tourism, and spatially connoted heritage commodities thereby function as examples for the discussion of approaches beyond an essentialization of the elementary.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 53/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 133-144
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English