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Figured worlds : ontological obstacles in intercultural relations /
"World Visions can conceive of everything except alternative world visions." If this pronouncement by Umberto Eco is right, how can any ethnic group conceive of living with another group on the same territory in Canada or elsewhere if their world visions are incompatible? Can we sidestep i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Anthropological horizons.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: The Nature of Nature / Eric Schwimmer
- Introduction: The Relevance of Ontologies in Anthropology--Reflections on a New Anthropological Field / John Clammer, Sylvie Poirier, Eric Schwimmer
- The Reconstruction of Figured Worlds
- A Circumpolar Night's Dream / Tim Ingold
- Ontology, Ancestral Order, and Agencies among the Kukatja of the Australian Western Desert / Sylvie Poirier
- The Politics of Animism / John Clammer
- Beyond Positional Identities
- In the Nature of the Human Landscape: Provenances in the Making of Zanzibari Politics / David Parkin
- Apparent Compatibility, Real Incompatibility: Native and Western Versions of History--The Innu Example / Sylvie Vincent
- Non-negotiated Ontologies: Authoring Selves
- 'We Live This Experience': Ontological Insecurity and the Colonial Domination of the Innu People of Northern Labrador / Colin Samson
- The Cosmology of Nature, Cultural Divergence, and the Metaphysics of Community Healing / Adrian Tanner
- Negotiating Ontologies, Making Worlds
- The Customary Law of Indigenous Peoples and Modern Law: Rivalry or Reconciliation? / Bjarne Melkevik
- Making a World: The Maori of Aotearoa/New Zealand / Eric Schwimmer
- Epilogue / Eric Schwimmer.