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Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) war einer der bedeutendsten Kulturanthropologen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wie wichtig seine Vorstellung von Kultur als sinnstiftendes Bedeutungsgewebe heute noch ist, zeigt die erschütternde Gewalt von Menschen, die befürchten müssen, dass ihr sozio-kulturelles Netz Risse und Löcher bekommt, sie Halt und Orientierung verlieren. Die Geschichte und prekäre Situation der Inuit verdeutlicht diese Zusammenhänge. Barbara Schellhammer verbindet das Geertz'sche Denken mit dessen konkreter Anwendung in Nordkanada und bietet somit neue Perspektiven und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten - sowohl für die sozialwissenschaftliche Theoriebildung als auch für die besorgniserregende psycho-soziale Lage der Inuit. »Dieses Buch verbindet kulturtheoretische Expertise und konkrete Felderfahrungen zu einer Studie, die durchaus nachdenklich stimmt und interkulturelles Philosophieren sowie postmoderne/ postkoloniale Kulturtheorien mit der Einsicht konfrontiert, dass das Sinn- und Bedeutungssystem von Menschen nicht unbegrenzt belastbar und flexibel ist - was nicht gegen die Möglichkeit gesellschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse spricht, sehr wohl aber für die Notwendigkeit einer selbstreflexiven Modernisierung und einer selbstkritischen Wissenschaft.« Franz Gmainer-Pranzl, polylog, 37 (2017)

Dichte Beschreibung; Clifford Geertz; Inuit; Kultur; Ethnologie; Kulturtheorie; Kulturanthropologie; Kulturwissenschaft; Thick Description; Culture; Ethnology; Cultural Theory; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Studies --- Clifford Geertz. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Ethnology.

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The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by  broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of "thick description," socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol's artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond.

Capitalism --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- History. --- History --- Bristol (England) --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce --- Market economy --- Bristol, Eng. --- Corporation of the City of Bristol (England) --- Bristol (Avon) --- City of Bristol (England) --- City and County of Bristol (England) --- City & County of Bristol (England) --- Bristol (England : Unitary authority) --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- artisans. --- atlantic economy. --- atlantic seaboard. --- authority. --- bristol. --- capitalism. --- city life. --- cultural change. --- cultural practices. --- early capitalist economy. --- economic conditions. --- economic history. --- economics. --- english history. --- ethical norms. --- ethics. --- history of capitalism. --- justice. --- levant. --- medieval commercial economy. --- merchandise. --- merchants. --- modern western economy. --- monopoly. --- national politics. --- overseas merchants. --- pilgrimage. --- political change. --- political theory. --- retail shopkeepers. --- social change. --- thick description. --- urban life.

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrains and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa. --- Nepal --- Nepal. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Sherpas --- Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Federativnai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika Nepal --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Nepā --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Nepāla --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalia --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- Nepalo --- Nepāru --- Ni-po-erh --- Nibo'er --- Nīpāl --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- Respublika Nepal --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- Namche Bazar (Népal) --- Lo Manthang (Népal) --- Mustang (Népal) --- Gyasumdo (Népal) --- Dolpā (Népal) --- Teraï --- Asie du Sud --- Aphorism. --- Attack dog. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Baksheesh. --- Bardo Thodol. --- Bhutan. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Hinduism. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist texts. --- Butter lamp. --- Butter tea. --- Cannibalism. --- Cargo cult. --- Cretinism. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Crossbreed. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Doonesbury. --- Ethnography. --- Exorcism. --- Externality. --- False consciousness. --- Great Goddess. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hermann Broch. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Hillbilly. --- Himalayan Trust. --- Hungry ghost. --- Hypothyroidism. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Impermanence. --- Impossibility. --- Jargon. --- Jean Baudrillard. --- Kalachakra. --- Kathmandu. --- Khumbu. --- Madame Bovary. --- Mahayana. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mary Douglas. --- Michael Tobias. --- Mimesis. --- Mohan Lal (Zutshi). --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mountain pass. --- Mountaineering. --- Mudra. --- Nagarjuna. --- Orientalism. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Padmasambhava. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Physician. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Rinpoche. --- Sa?sara. --- Severity (video game). --- Shamanism. --- Shangri-La. --- Sherpa people. --- Snow Lion. --- Sonam (actress). --- Spirit King. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Tengboche. --- Thangka. --- The Monastery (TV series). --- Thick description. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Three Jewels. --- Tibet House. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan culture. --- Tibetan diaspora. --- Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan people. --- Transnationalism. --- Tulku. --- University of Arizona Press. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrasattva. --- Vajrayana. --- Vihara. --- Vulture Peak. --- Wilderness medicine (practice). --- Yaksha. --- Yogi.