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Die Siedlungsgemeinschaft: Grundriss der Essentialistischen Ethnologie by Klaus E. Muller

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English The starting point of this portrayal of settlement communities is village communities as they existed for at least 10,000 years before advanced civilisation. Given their cultural similarities, they are suitable as model groups, as they also allow us to draw conclusions about earlier and later, more complex or advanced models of societies. With its manual-style layout, the volume takes into account all areas of cultural expression. The key approaches are ethnocentricism and, ensuing from that, a dualistic world view. For the first time in cultural sciences, the general principles of group behaviour and conceptual formations are named and sets of rules derived from them. The fundamental hypothesis is that development is subject to an irreversible process of differentiation, setting out from a close bond between humans and their environment, then moving progressively through differentiation, dissociation, alienation, growing complexity and, finally, to uncontrollability, which then leads to downfall. German text. German Grundlage dieser Darstellung von Siedlungsgemeinschaften sind vorhochkulturliche Dorfgesellschaften, wie sie gut 10.000 Jahre lang bestanden. Sie eignen sich wegen ihrer kulturellen Gemeinsamkeiten als Modellgruppen, die Ruckschlusse auch auf fruhere wie spatere, komplexere (hochkulturliche) Gesellschaftstypen erlauben. Als Handbuch aufgebaut, berucksichtigt die Arbeit alle Ausdrucksbereiche der Kultur. Den Schlusselansatz bilden die ethnozentrische Einstellung und die daraus folgende dualistische Weltauffassung. Erstmals in den Kulturwissenschaften werden die allgemeinen Prinzipien des Gruppenverhaltens und der Vorstellungsbildung benannt und daraus Regelsatze abgeleitet. Die grundlegende These ist, dass die Entwicklung einem irreversiblen Differenzierungsprozess unterliegt, der von der ursprunglich engen Verbundenheit von Mensch und Umwelt zu fortschreitender Differenzierung, Dissozierung, Entfremdung, wachsender Komplexitat und zuletzt Unkontrollierbarkeit, das heisst in den Untergang fuhrt.

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First published March 31, 2010

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Prof. Dr. em. Klaus E. Müller was born in Dortmund in 1935. After coming into contact with Anthropology through Hermann Baumann, Müller decided to take up his studies at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich in 1959. He finished his habilitation thesis in 1970 and eventually took up a professorship at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University in 1971.

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