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Figured Worlds
Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations
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2004
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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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Clammer John :
John Clammer is a professor in the Department of Comparative Culture at Sophia University.Poirier Sylvie :
Sylvie Poirier is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.
Schwimmer Eric :
Eric Schwimmer is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface: The Nature of Nature
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Introduction: The Relevance of Ontologies in Anthropology - Reflections on a New Anthropological Field
1 - PART I. The Reconstruction of Figured Worlds
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Chapter One. A Circumpolar Night's Dream
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Chapter Two. Ontology, Ancestral Order, and Agencies among the Kukatja of the Australian Western Desert
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Chapter Three. The Politics of Animism
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Chapter Four. In the Nature of the Human Landscape: Provenances in the Making of Zanzibar! Politics
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Chapter Five. Apparent Compatibility, Real Incompatibility: Native and Western Versions of History - The Innu Example
132 - PART III. Non-negotiated Ontologies: Authoring Selves
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Chapter Six. 'We Live This Experience': Ontological Insecurity and the Colonial Domination of the Innu People of Northern Labrador
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Chapter Seven. The Cosmology of Nature, Cultural Divergence, and the Metaphysics of Community Healing
189 - PART IV. Negotiating Ontologies, Making Worlds
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Chapter Eight. The Customary Law of Indigenous Peoples and Modern Law: Rivalry or Reconciliation?
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Chapter Nine. Making a World: The Mâori of Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Epilogue
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Contributors
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Index
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