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Figured Worlds: Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations
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Figured Worlds: Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations Hardback - 2004 - 2nd Edition

by John Clammer (Editor); Sylvie Poirier (Editor); Eric Schwimmer (Editor)

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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.

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In the course of compiling his Systema Naturae of 1735, the great Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus was confronted with the problem of how to select the distinguishing characteristics of the genus he had christened Homo.

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  • Title Figured Worlds: Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations
  • Author John Clammer (Editor); Sylvie Poirier (Editor); Eric Schwimmer (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press
  • Publication date May 27, 2004
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780802087492 / 0802087493
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.4 x 1.17 in (23.42 x 16.26 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Culture conflict, Ontology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004302561
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.8

About the author

John Clammer is a professor in the Department of Comparative Culture at Sophia University. Sylvie Poirier is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universit Laval.
Eric Schwimmer is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Universit Laval and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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