Figured Worlds
Subtitle: Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations (Anthropological Horizons)
Contributors: John Clammer (Editor); Sylvie Poirier (Editor); Eric Schwimmer (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: May 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780802087492
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social groups & communities; Ethnic conflict; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Ontology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; Culture conflict
First sentence: In the course of compiling his Systema Naturae of 1735, the great Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus was confronted with the problem of how to select the distinguishing characteristics of the genus he had christened Homo.