The dance of person and place : one interpretation of American Indian philosophy /

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Ever since first contact with Europeans. American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethically monstrous. Using the writings of early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists, early...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norton-Smith, Thomas M., 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Colección:SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies.
Temas:
Indian philosophy > North America.
Philosophy.
Philosophy
Philosophie.
philosophy.
HISTORY > Native American.
Indian philosophy
North America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Common themes in American Indian philosophy
  • First introductions
  • Four common themes : a first look
  • Constructing an actual American Indian world
  • Nelson Goodman's constructivism
  • Setting the stage
  • Fact, fiction, and feeders
  • Ontological pluralism
  • True versions and well-made worlds
  • Nonlinguistic versions and the advancement of understanding
  • True versions and cultural bias
  • Constructive realism : variations on a theme by Goodman
  • True versions and cultural bias
  • An American Indian well-made actual world
  • Relatedness, native knowledge, and ultimate acceptability
  • Native knowledge and relatedness as a world-ordering principle
  • Native knowledge and truth
  • Native knowledge and verification
  • Native knowledge and ultimate acceptability
  • An expansive conception of persons
  • A western conception of persons
  • Native conceptions of animate beings and persons
  • An American Indian expansive conception of persons
  • The semantic potency of performance
  • Opening reflections and reminders about performances
  • Symbols and their performance
  • The Shawnee naming ceremony
  • Gifting as a world-constructing performance
  • Closing remarks about the semantic potency of performances
  • Circularity as a world-ordering principle
  • Goodman briefly revisited
  • Time, events, and history or space, place, and nature?
  • Circularity as a world-ordering principle
  • Circularity and sacred places
  • Closing remarks about circularity as a world-ordering principle
  • The dance of person and place
  • American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place
  • Consequences, speculations, and closing reflections.

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