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Concepts of Culture: Histories and Genealogies

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Steppat, Michael ; Kulich, Steve J.:
Concepts of Culture: Histories and Genealogies.
In: Journal of Intercultural Communication & Interactions Research. Bd. 2 (2022) Heft 1 . - S. 7-36.
ISSN 2768-1459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/jicir.2022.1.0003

Abstract

Research directions in the communication between cultures need to reflect on and account for their understanding of or notions of culture. It behooves researchers of (trans-, cross-, inter-, or comparative) culture to be aware of an influential range of major concepts of which each has a complex and nuanced history. Very few ideas of culture have been entirely superseded by later ones; most are relevant also for intercultural lines of questioning. Since new research often seeks an orientation within particular approaches to culture, this brief and historically oriented overview, designed to complement studies that introduce the specific logic of a systematic treatment or definition of culture, may be helpful in providing relevant clues. In 14 conceptual differentiations, this overview traces the development from early sources that consider what we would now think of as ``macro'' cultural systems, including the body politic, to intermediary notions of plurality and of unconscious mental patterns, to current constructivist frames, postmodern multiple identities, and the ``undoing of culture.'' This treatment aims to provide a textually elaborated review of how human thinking about culture has evolved, in order to document and guide more nuanced understandings of the genealogy of concepts that specific approaches or studies may presuppose or even take for granted.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: cultural pluralism; cultural power relations; culture and nation; multiculturalism; notions of culture; ontogenetic patterns; postmodernism
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Ehemalige ProfessorInnen > Professur Englische Literaturwissenschaft - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Steppat
Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 800 Literatur
Eingestellt am: 21 Okt 2026 11:19
Letzte Änderung: 21 Okt 2026 11:19
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/99822