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"In this book, the author elaborates the basic principles of a new field of intercultural studies, oriented toward global intelligence. He proposes concrete research and educational programs that would help create intercultural learning environments designed to stimulate sustainable human development throughout the world."--Jacket

1. Commentary to Part I: Nineteenth-Century Araucania: Chileans, Settlers and Indians -- 2. In Pursuit of the Ideal Chilean Citizen: The Discursive Foundations of the Colonisation by Immigration of Araucania in the Nineteenth-Century -- 3. "As Truthful as it is Patriotic": The Dispute between Rodolfo Lenz and Manuel Manquilef over Translation -- 4. Commentary to Part II: Interdiscursivity and Interlegality as Key Dimen-sions of Intercultural Coexistence -- 5. Indigenous Juridicity and Cultural Differences. When Judges Discuss Cul-ture in Cases of Domestic Violence in the Mapuche Community Context (Chile) -- 6. Meaningful Spaces for Language Socialisation in the Discourse of Mapuche Young People: A Qualitative Approach -- Episteme for Intercultural Dialogue between Mapuche Education and School Education -- 8. Commentary to Part III: Notes and Comments from the Perspective of the Liberating Intercultural Philosophy of 'Nuestra América' -- 9. Challenges for an Intercultural Democracy and Politics in the Chilean Wallmapu -- 10. The Endless Apogee of Interculturality: Critical Anthropological and Philosophical Reflections -- 11. Words, Relationality and Recognition: Apropos Axel Honneth.

The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies

"Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s, and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s, the extended metaphor or 'allegory', this volume offers a timely re-examination of what, according to Goethe, is a deeper mode of understanding the symbol. Via the life-long preoccupation of Ernst Cassirer with the problems of 'symbolic form', as he christened it, the papers collected here try to come to terms with the thinking of Goethe and Schiller on the symbol, and on related issues. Taken together, they attempt to elucidate the filiation of German classicism down through the nineteenth century to the present, in the belief that some of Cassirer's ideas have fed, often unacknowledged, into the mainstream of contemporary cultural theory, and that the rigour of his thought can help clear up much of the confusion in that 'theory'."