Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
one interpretation of American Indianphilosophy |
Author: |
Norton-SmithThomas M., 1954- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Albany |
Published: |
State University of New York Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 164 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies |
Subject: |
Indian philosophy - North America - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438431345/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9781438431345electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
1438431341electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9781438431338hbk. |
ISBN: |
1438431333hbk. |
ISBN: |
9781438431321pbk. |
ISBN: |
1438431325pbk. |
Content Note: |
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 andpersons -- An American Indian expansive conception of persons -- The semantic potency of performance -- Opening reflections and reminders about performances -- Symbols and their performance -- The Shawnee clming 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 -- Circularityand 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 |