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Anett C. Oelschlägel

    Der Weiße Weg
    "Roter Altai, gib dein Echo!"
    Plurale Weltinterpretationen
    Der Taigageist
    Plural world interpretations
    • 2016

      Plural world interpretations

      • 265 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      South Siberian Tyvan models of world interpretation exemplify the flexibility and plurality of human interpretation and social behaviour. Anett C. Oelschlaegel demonstrates that local actors utilise models that are both complementary and contradictory. “below the … declamatory level, however, most Tyvans were undogmatic pragmaticians, who constantly contradicted themselves or displayed a consistent inconsistency in their subjectively intended meaning.” Professor emeritus Bernhard Streck, University of Leipzig

      Plural world interpretations