German Club Life as a Local Cultural System
1990 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 357-382
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In the shadow of the Historikerstreit over the meaning of the Nazi era, West German historians are conducting a less highly publicized but similarly politicized debate about the role of ethnography in social history. The following analysis of local club life, based on ethnographic and archival research in Boppard on the Rhine, is offered as a contribution to and comment on this debate from the viewpoint of interpretive cultural anthropology. I contend that “local knowledge”—to employ the phrase by Clifford Geertz—is indispensable to broader historical syntheses, though for different reasons than have been suggested by either critics or advocates of cultural anthropology among West German historians.
2019 ◽
Vol 2
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2016 ◽
Vol 13
(2)
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pp. 66
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2021 ◽
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2018 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 219-239
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2019 ◽
Vol 10
(1)
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pp. 141-151