Before revision: Its focal points were: to describe patterns of human bodily practice as rites and ceremonies, music and dance, sports and exercises, play and game, beyond ideas and weltanschauung :de:Weltanschauung; to identify analogies between patterns of bodily behaviour (gestures and body movement) and patterns of thinking (“Denkordnungen”); to compare forms of behaviour across different times and cultures by patterns and configurations rather than by meaning; to compare patterns of behaviour, of thinking and of mentalities (mindsets) in different fields of society, as in economical behaviour, military behaviour, concepts of natural sciences, proceedings (processes) and atmospheres in literary works, and social movements; to understand epochal changes of behaviour (→Periodization); to bridge the gap between history, sociology and anthropology.
After revision: Its focal points were: to describe patterns of human bodily practice as rites and ceremonies, music and dance, sports and exercises, play and game, beyond ideas and weltanschauung :de:Weltanschauung; to identify analogies between patterns of bodily behaviour (gestures and body movement) and patterns of thinking (“Denkordnungen”); to compare forms of behaviour across different times and cultures by patterns and configurations rather than by meaning; to compare patterns of behaviour, of thinking and of mentalities (mindsets) in different fields of society, as in economical behaviour, military behaviour, concepts of natural sciences, proceedings and atmospheres in literary works, and social movements; to understand epochal changes of behaviour (→Periodization); to bridge the gap between history, sociology and anthropology.