Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect

by Greg Urban

Winner, Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society

Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation. His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292785291
• ISBN13: 9780292785298
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"