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Christian Meyer 
Culture, Practice, and the Body 
Conversational Organization and Embodied Culture in Northwestern Senegal

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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.



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Table of Content

I. Introduction.- II. The interaction order: universal or culture specific?.- III. Conversational organization: the basics.- IV. The ethnography of speaking.- V. Social spaces among the Wolof: of public places and compounds.- VI. ‘Only one speaker at a time” on the Wolof village square?.- VII. It’s the culture! Is it?.- VIII. Conclusion: What’s universal in the end?

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.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 345 ● ISBN 9783476046062 ● File size 12.1 MB ● Publisher J.B. Metzler ● City Stuttgart ● Country DE ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6439927 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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