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A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. It shows that as they create their worlds, children create themselves as distinct human beings, being differently in their world.
List of contents
1 Introduction
2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home
3 Ontology and Resistance
4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and
Framework Theories
5 Study Design and Methods
6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models
7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change,
and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó
8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience,
Values, and Ontologies
9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the
Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity
10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó
11 Concepts of "Alive and "Living Kinds": Experience,
Culture, and Ontology
12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of "Alive"
13 Being in Space
14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of Worlds
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
NORBERT ROSS is associate professor of Anthropology and Theater at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Culture and Cognition: Implications for Theory and Method and the co-author (with Douglas L. Medin and Douglas G. Cox) of Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter.
