ABSTRACT
Alongside the advances that have been made in understanding culture comprehensively, several theoretical approaches shed light on particular features. Special attention has been paid to the individual as a representative of his or her culture, and to the individual’s role within intra- and intercultural mechanisms. Body semiotics have been thematised in studies presented by Eric Hobsbawm (1978), Roland Posner (1994) and Uta Kolano (1995), although some of the aspects had been addressed many decades before by Richard Ungewitter (1905, 1913). And some socio-cognitive theories have been presented with high explanatory value with regard to the transfer of cultural elements and its effect on cultural identity (Theory of Symbolic Self-Completion, Wicklund & Gollwitzer, 1982), as well as to the maintenance of identity constructs (Frey, 1981).
