An Athapaskan way of knowing
Chipewyan Ontology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Smith (0000-0002-8199-7169, University of Minnesota, Duluth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412-432 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1998.25.3.412 |
| OpenAlex | W2054829784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 46 |
The ontology of those Canadian Chipewyan who still actively hunt, fish, and trap is based on the assumption that one must maintain a harmonious communication with nature, especially with animal persons. To this end, emphasis is placed on paying attention to the full complement of holistically interacting senses, giving more attention to the intuitive and affective realms than is typical for Euro-American ontologies. No single sensorium dominates metaphorically; greatest validity is given to firsthand, experiential knowledge attained in waking life or in dreams, with the powerful stories of the elders serving as guides to understanding. Chipewyan thought is monistic-there are no human/nature, mind/body, thought/action, or spirit/matter dualisms. There is a definite cognitive connection among the inseparability of the senses, an implicit monistic philosophy, the understanding that individual can never be separate from society, social egalitarianism, and the belief in the need for maintaining harmonious communication with animal persons. [Chipewyan, ontology, perception, inkonze, monism
Action (physics · Dualism · Egalitarianism · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Monism · Ontology · Perception · Sociology · Categorization, perception, and language · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Cross-cultural forager myth transmission rules
Envisioning a Western Clovis Ritual Complex
Using Traditional Knowledge to Adapt to Ecological Change
The Flesh and the Word
Samuel Hearne, the Denesuline, and the Beaver
The Flesh and the Word
A Gift of Words, a Gift of Truth
Introduction
Encountering the Supernatural
The Invisible Rendered Visible
Les images du Magdalénien, un naturalisme sans l’idée de Nature
Moving Beyond Widdowson and Howard
Coercion with Morality
Dog Dreams
At the Crossroads
La estructura que sostiene la vida
Getting more real with wonder
The Crystal Forest
Naturalism and the representation of animals in the southern French Pyrenees
Uncertain encounters with wild elephants in Assam, Northeast India
First Nations, Citizenship and Animals, or Why Northern Indigenous People Might Not Want to Live in Zoopolis
Dream sharing as social practice
Language in the Amerindian imagination
Bodies that speak
Words beyond meaning in Mapuche language ideology
Thinking of the landin that way
Lower Paleolithic Stone-Animal ontologies
Les sens assoupis
La citoyenneté double
Banquete de gente
Indigenous Epistemologies of North America
Se sentir chez soi » au musée
Percepções da presa
Respecting the Language of Elders
The gift in the animal
Algonquian rock art and the landscape of power
Spirits as 'ready to hand
Where is the real trap? Domination and mutualism in Teetl'it Gwich'in sensibilities about trapping
A floresta de cristal
Dreaming of the Kardashians
Inhabiting a transforming delta
Feasting on People
Native Peoples
Occident Alism
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
Culture and Experience
Different Bodies, Different Minds
Grateful Prey
Make Prayers to the Raven
Hunters of the Northern Forest
Big Stone Foundations
Experiencing Meaning
A lbert's P ower
Death of a Patriarch
Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes toward Nature
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]
Two treatises of government
Bringing home animals
The Trail of the Hare
Ways of Knowing
The Legitimation of Beliefs in a Hunter-Gatherer Society
Political Resistance in a Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Society
Contributions to Anthropology
Shared Experience and Magical Death
Intergroup Behavior and Imagery
Moose-Deer Island house people
Some Problems in the Study of Oceanic Religion
The Dynamics of a Dene Struggle for Self-Determination
Beaver Dreaming and Singing
The Contact-Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North
The Emergence of the Micro-Urban Village Among the Caribou-Eater Chipewyan
Ojibwa Taxonomy and Percept Ambiguity
The Concept of Meaning In Recent Anthropological Theory
Sweet colors, fragrant songs
Giant Fish, Giant Otters, and Dinosaurs
Sound in Songhay cultural experience
Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies
World as View and World as Event1
The Medicine Fight
Conventional Metaphors and Anthropological Metaphysics
"Rethinking "Mana
The Notion of Magic
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2024 (56) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |