ResourceCultures

This volume is a collection of contributions to the international and interdisciplinary Conferences 'Developments - Movements - Valuations' from November 6th to 9th 2014 and 'ResourceCultures – Theories, Methods, Perspectives' from November 16th to 19th 2015 at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen organised by the collaborative research centre 'SFB 1070 ResourceCultures - Sociocultural Dynamics in the Use of Resources'. It includes comprehensive papers about theories, approaches and concepts for the exploration of ResourceCultures, applying a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective according to the vision of the SFB. International experts from a variety of different disciplines present case studies, examining ResourceCultures from the very beginning of human history until the present in a wide variety of cultural contexts. Thus, they demonstrate the manifold facets of 'resources' as a category for scientific analysis.