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The dance of person and place : one interpretation of American Indian philosophy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 narratives told or written by Indians, and scholarly work by contemporary Native writers and philosophers, Shawnee philosopher Thomas M. Norton-Smith develops a rational reconstruction of American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place. He views Native philosophy through the lens of a culturally sophisticated constructivism grounded in the work of contemporary American analytic satisfying certain criteria construct actual worlds--words make worlds. Ultimately, Norton-Smith argues that the Native ways of organizing experiences with spoken words and other performances construct real worlds as robustly as their Western counterparts. and, in so doing, he helps to bridge the chasm between Western and American Indian philosophical traditions. "The author opens a unique and exciting avenue for philosophical discourse by demonstrating a method of inquiry that provides a new way of interpreting Native thinking, a method that not only promotes Native philosophical systems but allows for greater communication between Western and Native philosophers."--Lorraine Mayer, author of Cries from a Metis Heart. "Challenging and provocative, this book is a great step forward in the conversation of academic Indigenous philosophy."--Brain Yazzie Burkhart, Pitzer College --Book Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 164 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438431345 1438431341 |