Mind, Materiality and History : Explorations in Fijian Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9780415195775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str.

Christina Toren

Opis

How do we each become who we are? How is it that we are so different from one another in the ways we are the same? And so similar in the ways we are different? The answers to these puzzles lie in the manifold ways that the material world of objects and other people informs the process of our becoming ourselves. A process whereby it becomes clear that mind is THE fundamental historical phenomenon. The outcome of over a decade's work, the underlying concern of these various explorations into how Fijians live their lives and, in so doing, constitute their knowledge of the world, has been to derive a new theory of embodied mind that works as well for explaining ourselves as it does for explaining others.

Recenzje

'Toren's perception, craft and theoretical articulation can only be admired.' - Vicki Lukere, Australia National University

Spis treści

List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: mind, materiality and history, PART I Objectifying history, material mind, PART II The material basis of meaning, PART III Living history, material mind and the stuff of the world, Notes, References

O autorze

Christina Toren