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Informationen zum Autor By Greg Urban Klappentext Winner, Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyStarting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation. His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics of Western thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and the understandings we form of them.Metaphysical Community proposes that this dichotomy comes from the interplay between two sides of discourse-its intelligible side as a carrier of meanings, and its sensible side as thing-in-the-world that must be replicated. This insight leads to the heart of the book-the exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena.Urban challenges basic assumptions that underlie social and cultural anthropology and much of the social sciences and humanities. His provocative insights will be of interest to all those concerned with anthropology, cultural studies, literary criticism, the sociology and politics of culture, and philosophy. Zusammenfassung A South American tribe's culture is the starting point for this exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. A Tapir's Heart2. We the Living3. The Hole in the Sky4. A Lock of Hair in a Ball of Wax5. The Jaguar's Spots6. This Is Your Making7. Rocks That Talk8. Between Myth and DreamNotesReferencesIndex
