Towards a Historical Cultural Anthropology

• Authors: Wulf Christoph
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In today’s globalized world anthropology is a transdisciplinary and trans-cultural field of research. In the here-proposed concept 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. Anthropology 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.

Keywords

EN

hominization; evolution; philosophical anthropology; historical anthropology; mentality; cultural anthropology; historical cultural anthropology; mimesis; ritual

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 109-123

Contributors

author

Wulf Christoph

• Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the “Cultures of the Performative” Collaborative Research Center (SFB), the “Languages of Emotion” Cluster and the “InterArts Studies” Graduate School at Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195 Berlin, Germany