World as View and World as Event1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2449802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter J Ong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 634-647 |
| Publication date | 1969-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1969.71.4.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W1994662689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 5 |
As a concept and term, "world view" is useful but can at times be misleading. It reflects the marked tendency of technologized man to think of actuality as something essentially picturable and to think of knowledge itself by analogy with visual activity to the exclusion, more or less, of the other senses. Oral or nonwriting cultures tend much more to cast up actuality in comprehensive auditory terms, such as voice and harmony. Their "world" is not so markedly something spread out before the eyes as a "view" but rather something dynamic and relatively unpredictable, an event-world rather than an object-world, highly personal, overtly polemic, fostering sound-oriented, traditionalist personality structures less interiorized and solipsistic than those of technologized man. The concept of world view may not only interfere with the empathy necessary for understanding such cultures but may even be outmoded for our own, since modern technological man has entered into a new electronic compact with sound
Aesthetics · Analogy · Art · Empathy · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Harmony (color · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Personality · Sociology · Visual arts · World view · Chinese history and philosophy · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Environment
Pour une anthropologie des sens
Hunter‐Gatherer Cosmologies
In the Mind's Ear
The use of traditional entertainment forms to stimulate social change
Ceremonial Worlds and Environmental Sanity
The Flesh and the Word
The Flesh and the Word
Kiowa forty-nine singing
Raised under bad stars
Facing new flows
Conflict in patterns of socialization
Explorations in the noosphere
Understanding the medium of exchange1
The footprint and the stepping foot
What is Hospitality in the Academy? Epistemic Ignorance and the (Im)Possible Gift
Who said the Kelly letters? The question of authorship and the nature of wild language in the Cameron and Jerilderie letters
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality
Civilized madness
Combating Cultural Appropriation in the American Southwest
The idea of environment in a historical perspective of human population
Smell organization
Lost in Space? Located in place
Making Scents of Transition
Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada
Plages for speaking in teamsterville
The power of words
Quali(a)tative Methods
Foundations for an anthropology of the senses
Deciphering a meal again, or the anthropology of taste
La conjugaison des sens
Chants d'oiseaux, cris de cochons et bruits des petites bestioles
An Athapaskan way of knowing
Sweet colors, fragrant songs
World View Theory and Study
Sensual, material, and technological understanding
Writing on the body
Image and Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2025 (57) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |