Bracketing
in Ethnologia Europaea
Author:
Jonas Frykman
Jonas Frykman
University of Lund jonas.frykman@etn.lu.se
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From the beginning of the article: The concept of “cultural bracketing” can be a tool for describing how diffuse and changeable is the world in which people move – full of possibilities and open to admit new experiences. Words combined with “cultural” otherwise can easily take on a deceptive clarity. But things are often latent, waiting to be put to use; they live an unnoticed life. If things are not clearly arranged in taxonomies and categories, what about people, thoughts, and mental processes?