Cultural space

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Cultural area generally describes the current area of ​​distribution (region or country) of a delimitable culture - in contrast to the ethnological “ cultural area ” (cultural province ), which often includes a historical, more original area of ​​distribution. The Folklore deals with the European cultural area , distinguishing the supranational German cultural and language area , for example in a Bavarian cultural area in Austria and Bavaria and Lower German cultural area in the east of the Netherlands and northern Germany . Partly generalizing is spoken of the French or British cultural area, which can also include overseas territories and former colonies . With regard to religions , for example, a distinction is made between a Christian-Catholic and an Islamic cultural area; there are overlaps with the outdated culture theory .

"Cultural area densification" describes complementary or competing cultural areas that overlap in the same place or in the same region, for example in border areas (see also cultural border , language border ).

“ Forming cultural space” describes the conscious and unconscious manipulative shaping of the mental image of a cultural space through politics and society. This enables the area and the culture to be identified with its population, for example to justify regional claims.

Importance for folklore

As part of folklore research into regional differences, questions are asked about the characteristics and development of individual cultural areas. A distinction is made in relict areas and Novation rooms: In a relic field altar term cultural phenomena have been longer periods of time passed on ; in a novation room, on the other hand, technical achievements could very quickly establish themselves and spread.

The culture space research developed in the 1920s -Jahren in the Rhineland , then spread but in Europe from. Until the 1980s, the main focus of the participating scientists was on the creation of so-called folklore atlases in order to be able to optimally illustrate the knowledge gained (see Atlas of German Folklore ).

Due to the National Socialist use of the term during the Third Reich , cultural area research was disqualified after 1945, so that it has only been carried out on a small scale since then. Heinrich L. Cox, Gerda Grober-Glück and especially Günter Wiegelmann paid more attention to it.

In early folklore and German ethnology, in addition to cultural area , the term cultural area, synonymous with "cultural province", was used.

See also

literature

  • Hermann Aubin , Theodor Frings , Josef Müller: Cultural currents and cultural provinces in the Rhineland. 1926.
  • Matthias Zender : Atlas of German Folklore - New Series. Marburg 1958–1985:
    • 1st - 3rd Card delivery. 1958–1962.
    • 4th to 5th Delivery. In collaboration with Gerda Grober-Glück and Günter Wiegelmann, 1965–1973.
    • 6-7 Delivery. In collaboration with Heinrich L. Cox, Gerda Grober-Glück and Günter Wiegelmann, 1977–1979.
    • 3 explanatory volumes. 1959-1985.
  • Atlas of Swiss Folklore. Founded by Paul Geiger and Richard Weiss , continued by Walter Escher, Elisabeth Liebl and Arnold Niederer . Basel 1950–1988.
  • Heinrich L. Cox, Günter Wiegelmann (ed.): Folklore cultural research today. Munster 1984

Web links

Wiktionary: cultural area  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Joachimsthaler: Regionality as a category of linguistics and literary studies. Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39167-6 , p. 18.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Joachimsthaler: Forming cultural space through language and literary politics. In: Orbis Linguarum. Volume 21. Wrocław, Legnica 2002, pp. 109–115 ( PDF file; 90 kB; 9 pages ( memento of September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).