Guido Sprenger
Universität Heidelberg, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty Member
... der Gesellschaft. Die Gegensätze und Widersprüche des Wertesystems sind die wichtigsten Triebfedern der Reproduktion und Dynamik der Ge-sellschaft (vgl. Dumont 1980 [1966], 1991 [1983], Heesterman 1985). 1. 2 Der ...
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This felicitation volume for Josephus D.M. Platenkamp brings some central concerns of anthropology into focus: social morphology, exchange, cosmology, history and practical applications. Ranging across several disciplines and continents,... more
This felicitation volume for Josephus D.M. Platenkamp brings some central concerns of anthropology into focus: social morphology, exchange, cosmology, history and practical applications. Ranging across several disciplines and continents, the contributions look at a common approach that unites these diverse themes. In the view, the most constitutive relationships of society are based on exchange. Exchange and ritual articulate central values of a society, thus appearing as parts in relationship to a whole. These relationships encompass both human and non-human beings, the social and the cosmological domain. Thus, the study of these subject issues merges into a single project.
