Symbolic dimension : anthropological studies in culture, religion and education / Jarema Drozdowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drozdowicz, Jarema, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Ethnologie (Lit (Firm)) ; Bd. 58.

Ethnologie ; Band 58 = Anthropology ; Volume 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolic anthropology.

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : LIT, [2014]

Summary:

Key issues in the contemporary debates on culture seem to be accompanied by the problem of meaning and the dynamics of it. The global dimension of culture is today a significant factor of the mentioned transgression, especially when we speak of cultural identity or intercultural communication. This book presents critical points of cultural change we may observe in many areas of local and global ecumene. The emerging of new currents, processes, and phenomena as well the transformation of older ones is an evidence of the fact that culture cannot be regarded as a static whole, enclosed in a tangible framework of objectified artifacts. Thus culture is taken here as a specific narrative on human condition, with all its imponderables. The field where this regularity might be found is broadly understood religion and education, which often were combined in various institutions or in particular political practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Symbols and meanings in anthropological theory and education

Chapter 1 Interpretation of culture from the perspective of symbolic anthropology 15

Chapter 2 Teaching the other. Anthropology of education in the perspective of European cultural dilemmas 39

Chapter 3 Culture does matter. The American "boarding schools" system and the transformations of the assimilative policy in the USA 53

Chapter 4 Multiculturalism reconsidered. Bilingual education in Guatemala 67

Chapter 5 Seeing is believing. Anthropological visions of culture 81

Part II Culture and religion in the age of global change

Chapter 6 Domestication of the Orient. Dimensions of the cultural perception of religious otherness in contemporary Europe 95

Chapter 7 Between Kwanzaa and Jediism. Contemporary constructions of religious identity and imagined communities 105

Chapter 8 Preppers, EDC, and the new millenarianism 117

Chapter 9 A pearl in the crown. Concerning Banksy 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

3643905394

9783643905390

OCLC:

881140912

Publisher Number:

99960569641