The Shaman as a Maker of Worlds: Nelson Goodman in the Amazon

Overing, Joanna

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“…Titled 'The shaman as a maker of worlds: Nelson Goodman in the Amazon', Overing considers in it the implications of Goodman's theorisation of knowledge in relation to Piaroa shamanic knowledge and practice in Venezuela [4].…”

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“…Overing [4] uses his list to argue for understanding of a Piaroa ways of constantly making and remaking worlds in ways that appeared conflicting, and that derive from a metaphysics very different to those conventionally valorised by the formal sciences. ''The Piaroa ruwang [shaman] was able to do his work -to cure, to make fertile the land, to protect his communitybecause he was also in the business of worldmaking, of taking apart and putting together versions at hand, e.g.…”

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“…Literature in the field of comparative epistemology includes Hall[15]; Foley[16]; Kohn[17]; Overing[4]; a collection in Anthropology and Education Quarterly considers ways in which different epistemologies might find expression in the classroom[18,19]; see also Simpson[20] 4. Story performed by Daví Sarisri Espirito Santo.…”

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“…In other words, human and animal cultures and the meanings they both ascribe to and express about worldmaking processes become reversible in the constant search for social and emotional well-being (Descola 1998:37; see also Carneiro da Cunha 1998, Overing 1990, Scheper-Hughes and Ferreira 2007, Viveiros de Castro 1996. In other words, human and animal cultures and the meanings they both ascribe to and express about worldmaking processes become reversible in the constant search for social and emotional well-being (Descola 1998:37; see also Carneiro da Cunha 1998, Overing 1990, Scheper-Hughes and Ferreira 2007, Viveiros de Castro 1996.…”

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Mapping Time, Space and the Body

Ferreira¹

2015

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ScopeMathematics and science education are in a state of change. Received models of teaching, curriculum, and researching in the two fields are adopting and developing new ways of thinking about how people of all ages know, learn, and develop. The recent literature in both fields includes contributions focusing on issues and using theoretical frames that were unthinkable a decade ago. For example, we see an increase in the use of conceptual and methodological tools from anthropology and semiotics to understand how different forms of knowledge are interconnected, how students learn, how textbooks are written, etcetera. Science and mathematics educators also have turned to issues such as identity and emotion as salient to the way in which people of all ages display and develop knowledge and skills. And they use dialectical or phenomenological approaches to answer ever arising questions about learning and development in science and mathematics.The purpose of this series is to encourage the publication of books that are close to the cutting edge of both fields. The series aims at becoming a leader in providing refreshing and bold new work-rather than out-of-date reproductions of past states of the art-shaping both fields more than reproducing them, thereby closing the traditional gap that exists between journal articles and books in terms of their salience about what is new. The series is intended not only to foster books concerned with knowing, learning, and teaching in school but also with doing and learning mathematics and science across the whole lifespan (e.g., science in kindergarten; mathematics at work); and it is to be a vehicle for publishing books that fall Published by: Sense Publishers,

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“…What it encloses is no less than the capacity to be social, i.e. to engage in a reciprocal and convivial worldmaking (Overing 1990). In this sense, its attributes of "internal necessity" and "external totality" function as two pinches between which the possibility of statelessness is rendered unthinkable and unintelligible.…”

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The State as a Social Relation

Lynteris¹

2013

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The Shaman as a Maker of Worlds: Nelson Goodman in the Amazon

Cited by 85 publications

References 4 publications

Challenging epistemologies: Exploring knowledge practices in Palikur astronomy

Challenging epistemologies: Exploring knowledge practices in Palikur astronomy

Mapping Time, Space and the Body

The State as a Social Relation

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