• The dance of person and place : one interpretation of American Indianphilosophy
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    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
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