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| Title: | Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics |
| Authors: | Isbell, Billie Jean |
| Keywords: | Astronomy
Ethnoastronomy
Archaeoastronomy
Mesoamerica
Indigenous Societies
American Tropics
Zenith
Nadir
Anthropology |
| Issue Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | New York Academy of Science |
| Citation: | Isbell, Billie Jean. Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics. In Ethno-Astronomy and Archaeo-Astronomy in the American Tropics, edited by A. F. Aveni and G. Urton. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 385 (1982): 353-363. |
| Abstract: | As an anthropologist, I would like to suggest that the tropics provide a perceptual environment that promotes and enhances a particular 'science
of the concrete, whereby perceived order in the environment is the basis for systems of classifications, epistemological structures, and
cosmologies. In the American tropics, the science of the concrete takes on a particular character that results in epistemologies founded in what I
will call dialectical, reversible dualism. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2193 |
| ISBN: | 0897661605
0897661613 |
| Appears in Collections: | Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
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