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The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy

The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy

Norton-Smith, Thomas M.

Paperback

Series: Suny Living Indigenous Philosophies

PhilosophyNative American History

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ISBN10: 1438431325
ISBN13: 9781438431321
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 29 2010
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.36 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Uses the concept of worldmaking to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy.

Ever since first contact with Europeans, American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethically monstrous. Using the writings of early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists, early narratives told or written by Indians, and scholarly work by contemporary Native writers and philosophers, Shawnee philosopher Thomas Norton-Smith develops a rational reconstruction of American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place. He views Native philosophy through the lens of a culturally sophisticated constructivism grounded in the work of contemporary American analytic philosopher Nelson Goodman, in which stories (or world versions) satisfying certain criteria construct actual worlds-words make worlds. Ultimately, Norton-Smith argues that the Native stories construct real worlds as robustly as their Western counterparts, and, in so doing, he helps to bridge the chasm between Western and American Indian philosophical traditions.

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