Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect - Hardcover

Urban, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292785283 ISBN 13: 9780292785281

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1996

Synopsis

"Leading exponent of discourse-centered approach examines social organization of the Shokleng, GÃe-speaking peoples of southern Brazil. Author suggests a reading in terms of the problematic of knowledge: the theme of intelligibility and sensibility and their interrelations; logical empiricism and its connection to the world; the attachment of circulating discourse to sensible space; the relation of discourse and power relations; and the relation of discourse to reference"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Review

This is one of the most sophisticated explanations available on the many and varied links between language and culture.... By constantly juxtaposing the sensible and the intelligible, [Urban] shows the adaptive qualities of culture and communication, and casts an old controversy about social organization in a totally new light. As abstract as this may sound, it is concretized with one of the best explications in print about the process of ethnographic fieldwork and how an outsider can go from observations of behavior to analysis and interpretation of historical and sociocultural patterns and processes.

Synopsis

"Leading exponent of discourse-centered approach examines social organization of the Shokleng, G e-speaking peoples of southern Brazil. Author suggests a reading in terms of the problematic of knowledge: the theme of intelligibility and sensibility and their interrelations; logical empiricism and its connection to the world; the attachment of circu

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292785283
• ISBN 13: 9780292785281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288