Text anthropology

Text anthropology is a term introduced by Markus Hilgert (Hilgert 2010) in the formation of theories in cultural studies, which describes an artifact and practice-oriented research paradigm in the text-interpretative historical cultural studies.

approach

Loosely based on the 'image anthropology' postulated by Hans Belting (Belting 2001), the 'text-anthropological' approach addresses the human being as a 'place of text'. In turning away from the essentialist premise of text-immanent, fixed meaning, the 'text anthropology' according to Hilgert “is distinguished from other text theories and hermeneutic approaches in that it sensibly regulates the written and the 'meanings' of the written as an artefactual or epistemic product specific cultural systems of knowledge based on human actions. Consequently, the research strategies as well as the methodological instruments of the 'text-anthropological' approach are fed not least from all those scientific disciplines that help explain human action, such as sociology, praxeology , cultural theory, epistemology , cognitive science or psychology ”.

Requirements for use

Hilgert's use of the term 'text anthropology', however, 'with Belting ... presupposes that' the talk of anthropology .... is not tied to a specific subject ', but rather' expresses the desire for an open, interdisciplinary understanding 'of what is written '. 'Likewise, it relates to a different temporality than what evolutionist models of history allow' " . Precisely because the conceptual new creation of 'text anthropology' causes "terminological frictions", Hilgert says, "it can serve to draw attention to the significantly expanded epistemological and methodological claims" of the theoretically broadly based and fundamentally inter- or . to direct the multidisciplinary 'science of writing'.

Use of terms

The 'text-anthropological' approach serves as the theoretical and methodological basis of the cultural studies Collaborative Research Center 933 “Material Text Cultures” established by the DFG in 2011 at the University of Heidelberg . Materiality and presence of the written in non-typographic societies ” .

literature

• Hans Belting : Image Anthropology. Drafts for a picture science , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3-77055-221-0
• Markus Hilgert : 'Text Anthropology': The exploration of the materiality and presence of the written as a hermeneutic strategy , in: M. Hilgert (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the 21st Century: Self-Understanding, Challenges, Goals. Announcements of the German Orient Society 142 (2010), 85-124.
• Markus Hilgert: Artifact analyzes of the written with a praxeological perspective. On the heuristic potential of material text culture research , in: Friederike Elias, Albrecht Franz, Ulrich W. Weiser, Henning Murmann (Eds.), Praxeologie. Contributions to the interdisciplinary range of practical theoretical approaches in the humanities and social sciences. Materiale Textkulturen 3, 2014, pp. 149–164.

Web links

• Collaborative Research Center 933 "Material Text Cultures" at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (Hilgert 2010, 94)
2. ↑ (Belting 2001, 12)
3. ↑ (Hilgert 2010, 94 note 15)
4. ↑ Press release on the homepage of the Collaborative Research Center "Material Text Cultures" ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 1, 2011.