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Culture, Practice, and the Body

Conversational Organization and Embodied Culture in Northwestern Senegal

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  • Basics of human sociality - theoretically and empirically
  • Combines Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and interactionism
  • Illustrated by results of field research in Senegal
  • Grundlagen menschlicher Sozialität werden theoretisch und empirisch aufgedeckt
  • Vereint Phänomenologie, Ethnomethodologie und Interaktionismus
  • Veranschaulicht durch Ergebnisse einer Feldforschung im Senegal

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
  2. I. Introduction

    • Christian Meyer
    Pages 1-32
  3. Part 1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. III. Conversational organization: The basics

      • Christian Meyer
      Pages 75-106
    3. IV. The ethnography of speaking

      • Christian Meyer
      Pages 106-128
  4. Part 2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. VII. It’s the culture! Is it?

      • Christian Meyer
      Pages 264-303
    3. VIII. Conclusion: What’s universal in the end?

      • Christian Meyer
      Pages 304-316
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 317-345

About this book

Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on recent debates in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, and empirically by the example of interactions on the central square of a Wolof village in Northwestern Senegal.

Menschliche Sozialität gestaltet und realisiert sich zuallererst in den vielfältigen verkörperten Praktiken zwischenmenschlicher Interaktionen. Die Sozialnatur des Menschen ist dabei offen für kulturelle Einflüsse. Dieses Buch inspiziert die Grundlagen menschlicher Sozialität theoretisch anhand jüngerer Diskussionen in der Soziologie, Ethnologie, Anthropologie und Linguistik und empirisch am Beispiel von Interaktionen auf dem zentralen Platz eines Dorfes der Wolof Nordwestsenegals.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Universität Konstanz Fachbereich Geschichte Soziologie, Konstanz, Deutschland

    Christian Meyer

About the author

Christian Meyer is Professor of General and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz.

Christian Meyer ist Professor für Allgemeine Soziologie und Kultursoziologie an der Universität Konstanz.

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Hardcover Book USD 49.99
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