ISBN:
9781442674899
,
144267489X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 299 p., [1] p. of plates)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Anthropological horizons
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Figured worlds
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Conflits ethniques
;
Conflit culturel
;
Ontologie
;
Ontology
;
Culture conflict
;
Ethnic conflict
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Culture conflict
;
Ethnic conflict
;
Ontology
;
Kulturkonflikt
;
Minderheitenfrage
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"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 incompatible world visions or should we try to understand them? Figured Worlds explores the possibilities of equilibrium between commitments to mutual understanding and the framing of strategies of negotiation. This collection begins its rich analytical investigation by describing how people Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori, Japanese, and Africans first learn the figured worlds of their own culture, made up of sensations, affirmations and will, prophecy, revelation, myth, dream, and metamorphoses. It then sets out how diverse figured worlds within a given social system are related, and concludes by offering insightful mappings of the dynamics of these relations, perceived in both their existential-ontological aspects, as well as their material-practical means. Comprising scholarship that is half Canadian and half British, this work offers important foundational perspectives into the thought worlds of cultures found within other cultures
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442674899
URL:
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