Original bond

The American ethnologist Clifford Geertz , based on the sociologist Edward Shils (1910–1995), understands the inner bonds of a person ( loyalties ) that result from the as original bond , primordial bond or primordiality ( Latin "primeval, primordial") Basic conditions of their social life emerge. These are, for example, the feelings of belonging to the closest relatives , to a certain religion or language, to certain norms and customs or to a limited and manageable location ( home ) conveyed from earliest childhood . This can include singing certain songs or listening to acoustic stimuli such as ringing bells.

According to Geertz, these original ties are stronger than those that people enter into later in life out of economic interests or political convictions. It is the appeal to these feelings and these affective bonds that the success of ethnic or national Ver -Community tung allow.

See also

• Term of tradition in ethnology
• Attachment theory (innate need to build close relationships with others)

literature

• Alain Daniélou: Shivaïsme et tradition primordiale (= Les cahiers du mleccha. Volume 3). Kailash, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-8426-8103-7 .
• Clifford Geertz : "Fateful Distress". Religion as experience, meaning, identity, power. In: Sense and Form . Volume 53, No. 6, 2001 ISSN  0037-5756 , pp. 742-760.
• Claudius R. Köster: Collective Identity. Miscell about a discourse between primordiality and constructiveness. In: Siegener Periodicum on international empirical literature. Volume 14, No. 2, 1995, ISSN  0722-7833 , pp. 329-335.
• Klaus E. Müller: The fifth dimension. Social space-time and understanding of history in primordial cultures (= Essen cultural-scientific lectures. Volume 3). Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-348-3 .
• Edward Shils : Tradition. Emphasis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 0-226-75325-5 (original 1981).