Political Anthropology

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The Political anthropology is both a branch of political theory and the history of ideas and the philosophical anthropology . The subject of research is attempts to derive forms of political regulation from the nature of humans (or their cultural characteristics). Dirk Jörke sees the peculiarity of political as opposed to the more general philosophical anthropology in the fact that it aims at the “justification or foundation of basic frameworks” of human coexistence, which are also accompanied by various forms of collective coercive violence. As a “classic example of this” he first names legal norms . But anthropological assumptions can also be of importance for the establishment of over-positive human rights . According to this understanding of political anthropology, it is about "justification programs" which infer "from anthropological universals to political-legal norms".

As early as 1967, Georges Balandier named three goals that political anthropology strives for and determines: Firstly, a “definition of the political” that is not “linked solely to so-called historical societies or the existence of a state apparatus”. Second, an “elucidation” of the processes of the formation and change of political systems through research that is carried out parallel to the historical one. Limited, "but includes in all its historical and geographical expansion." Third, comparative study, the different forms of political reality, not only to a particular story that Europe However, the Anglo-Saxon political anthropology (see policy Ethnology ) mainly culturally influenced political behavior researched and, where it is not about physical or linguistic anthropological constants, must be distinguished from political anthropology.

See also

List.svgfList of topics: Political Ethnology  - Overview in the portal: Ethnology

literature

  • Georges Balandier : Political Anthropology. Nymphenburger, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-485-03045-7 .
  • Christian Graf von Krockow : Politics and human nature: dams against self-destruction. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-421-06345-1 .
  • Agnes Horvath: What Kind of Political Anthropology? Turning Iconoclasm into Golden Age. In: International Political Anthropology. Volume 1, No. 2, November 2008, pp. 255-264 (English; PDF: 251 kB on ipower.com).
  • Dirk Jörke : Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14908-3 .
  • Dirk Jörke, Bernd Ladwig (ed.):  Political anthropology , history - present - possibilities, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-3684-6 .
  • Arpad Szakolczai: What Kind of Political Anthropology? An external insider view. In: International Political Anthropology. Volume 1, No. 2, November 2008, pp. 275-282 (English; PDF: 273 kB on ipower.com).
  • Dieter Teichert : O. Höffe (ed.): The human being - a political animal? - Essays on political anthropology (Stuttgart, Reclam, 1992). In: Journal for Philosophical Research. Volume 48, No. 1, 1994, pp. 146-150.
  • Bjørn Thomassen: What Kind of Political Anthropology? In: International Political Anthropology. Volume 1, No. 2, November 2008, pp. 263-274 (English; PDF: 378 kB at ipower.com).

Web links

  • Hans-Rudolf Wicker: Political Anthropology. (PDF: 387 kB, 47 pp.) In: Guide for the introductory lecture in social anthropology, 1995–2012. Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern, July 31, 2012, pp. 36–42.
  • Information Philosophy : Anthropology and Political Theory. 2019 (Felix Heidenreich in conversation with Dirk Jörke, Gérard Raulet and Hartmut Rosa about anthropological reasoning models).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Jörke: Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Dirk Jörke: Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 12.
  3. ^ Georges Balandier: Political Anthropology. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1976, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Dirk Jörke: Political Anthropology: An Introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 10.