Structures of Cultural Transformations


Cultures are variously described as processes of tradition building, of transformation, negotiation, adaptation, marginalisation and exclusion. They are characterised by the different ways in which they have developed their own systems or representation, of moral and aesthetic values, of behavioural standards, of everyday practices and have set up the institutional arrangements which make possible as well as restrict these processes. Both the existing cultural paradigms as well as the ways in which they transform themselves, are time and culture specific. Openness or resistance to external influences, the structures of the relationship between various areas of cultural activites, between 'high' and popular cultures, the strategies with which they practice amalgamation and exclusion, recognition of indebtedness or denial of it, continuity and change - these are some of the aspects which define the structure of a particular culture at any given time. The conference will discuss the methodological and theoretical implications involved in the attempt to define and analyse cultural paradigms and it will do that by a combination of general reflection and a range of case studies.


Principal investigators
Schlaeger, Jürgen Prof. Dr. (Details) (British Literature and Culture)

Financer
DFG other programmes

Duration of project
Start date: 02/2004
End date: 02/2004

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