Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics

dc.contributor.author	Isbell, Billie Jean
dc.date.accessioned	2005-09-14T15:46:41Z
dc.date.available	2005-09-14T15:46:41Z
dc.date.issued	1982
dc.description.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.	en_US
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dc.identifier.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.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0897661605
dc.identifier.isbn	0897661613
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/2193
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	New York Academy of Science	en_US
dc.subject	Astronomy	en_US
dc.subject	Ethnoastronomy	en_US
dc.subject	Archaeoastronomy	en_US
dc.subject	Mesoamerica	en_US
dc.subject	Indigenous Societies	en_US
dc.subject	American Tropics	en_US
dc.subject	Zenith	en_US
dc.subject	Nadir	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US

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