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Figured Worlds : Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations / ed. by John Clammer, Eric Schwimmer, Sylvie Poirier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropological HorizonsPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802087492
  • 9781442674899
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 22
LOC classification:
  • GN496 .F44 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: "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.
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"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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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