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Linguistics: The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Umberto Eco
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 867-868
ISSN: 1548-1433
Gifts and Commodities Economies
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 339
The World of the Maori
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 331
Melanesian Religion
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 440
Anthropica: Gedenkschrift zum 100. Geburtstag von P. Wilhelm Schmidt
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 309
Parle, je t'ecouterai: Recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 325
ISSN: 1467-9655
Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 444
ISSN: 1715-3379
Figured worlds: ontological obstacles in intercultural relations
In: Anthropological horizons
"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