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 of Western
thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and
the understandings we form of them. Metaphysical Community proposes
that this dichotomy comes from the interplay between two sides of
discourse-its intelligible side as a carrier of meanings, and its
sensible side as thing-in-the-world that must be replicated. This
insight leads to the heart of the book-the exploration of the
uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena
and noumena. Urban challenges basic assumptions that underlie
social and cultural anthropology and much of the social sciences
and humanities. His provocative insights will be of interest to all
those concerned with anthropology, cultural studies, literary
criticism, the sociology and politics of culture, and philosophy.
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