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American Indian Thought Philosophical Essays

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ISBN-10: 0631223045

ISBN-13: 9780631223047

Edition: 2004

Authors: Anne Waters

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This volume brings together American Indian intellectuals to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues. The book presents an aggregate of a newly emerging academic field, American Indian Philosophy.
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Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.70" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why We Respect Our Elders Burial Grounds
Epistemology and Knowing
What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us
Approaches to Native American Philosophy
Epistemology and Understanding
Science, Math, Logic
A Philosophy of Native Science
Indigenous Numerical Thought
That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory
Metaphysics and Being
Notes on Identity, Time, Place, and Space
Language Matters: NonDiscreet NonBinary Dualism
Crippling the Spirit, Wounding the Soul: Native American Spiritual and Religious Suppression
Phenomenology and Ontology
On Authenticity
The Phenomenology of a Mugwump Life
Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being
Ethics and Respect
Ethics: The We and the I
Choctaw Conceptions of the Excellence of the Self, with Implications for a Native Education
Commodification of Knowledge
Social and Political
Jurisprudence of Colonialism
Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)recognition
Repatriation: Religious Freedom, Equal Opportunity, and Institutional Racism
Aesthetics
Ethics: From an Artist's Point of View
Along the Horizon A World Appears: George Morrison and the Pursuit of an American Indian Aesthetic
On Philosophical Discourse: Some Intercultural Musings
Bibliography
Index