Dance of Person and Place, The : One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy /

"Challenging and provocative, this book is a great step forward in the conversation of academic Indigenous philosophy."--Brain Yazzie Burkhart, Pitzer College --Book Jacket.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norton-Smith, Thomas M., 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Indian philosophy.
Philosophy.
HISTORY > Native American.
philosophy.
Philosophie.
Philosophy
Indian philosophy > North America.
North America.
Electronic books.
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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