Publisher's Synopsis
In recent years, experience, feeling, action and other such fields have become central in cultural research. Indeed, are culture forms not simply a varied mixture of symbols, pictures, texts and discourses? Is this not, above all, a lived-in world? This book contains detailed descriptions of the adventures of children in today's Nordic theme parks, the celebration of midsummer in Copenhagen, bus trips taken by guest workers between Malmö and Zagreb, the celebration of National Day in Budapest, the magic of the landscape in Istrien, Croatia, violence and mutilations in Sierra Leone, and painful homesickness among Lebanese businesspeople. Using concrete analyses, a group of eminent anthropologists and ethnologists aims at showing the creative 'new' by linking phenomenological theory-building to current analysis of culture.
