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Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are
interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation,
displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a
multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory
meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as places, and
be associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being
and moving in the world. In this book, we offer a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the
following critical and communicative questions about home: 1) How
do people "speak" and "story" home in their everyday lives? And
why? 2) Why and how is home-as a material presence, as a sense and
feeling, or as an absence-central to our notion of who we are, or
who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others? 3)
What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a "unit of
analysis" in our fields of study? This collection engages home from
diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the
same time the essays converse with each other by centering their
foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile.
Home-how we experience it and what it that says about the "selves"
we come to occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary
moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers
timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.
Stories of Home: Place, Identity, Exile offers a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume consider how people "speak"
and "story" home in their everyday lives, why "home" is central to
our notion of who we are, and how making home a unit of analysis in
research makes a strong conceptual contribution to the field of
communication. This collection engages home from diverse contexts
and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the
essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the
relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home-how we
experience it and what it says about the selves we come to
occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Stories
of Home: Place, Identity, Exile delivers timely and critical
perspectives on these important questions.
This book constitutes the first treatment of C. S. Peirce's unique
concept of habit. Habit animated the pragmatists of the 19th and
early 20th centuries, who picked up the baton from classical
scholars, principally Aristotle. Most prominent among the
pragmatists thereafter is Charles Sanders Peirce. In our
vernacular, habit connotes a pattern of conduct. Nonetheless,
Peirce's concept transcends application to mere regularity or to
human conduct; it extends into natural and social phenomena, making
cohesive inner and outer worlds. Chapters in this anthology define
and amplify Peircean habit; as such, they highlight the dialectic
between doubt and belief. Doubt destabilizes habit, leaving open
the possibility for new beliefs in the form of habit-change; and
without habit-change, the regularity would fall short of habit -
conforming to automatic/mechanistic systems. This treatment of
habit showcases how, through human agency, innovative regularities
of behavior and thought advance the process of making the
unconscious conscious. The latter materializes when affordances
(invariant habits of physical phenomena) form the basis for
modifications in action schemas and modes of reasoning. Further,
the book charts how indexical signs in language and action are
pivotal in establishing attentional patterns; and how these habits
accommodate novel orientations within event templates. It is
intended for those interested in Peirce's metaphysic or semiotic,
including both senior scholars and students of philosophy and
religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as
mathematics, and the natural sciences.
This book constitutes the first treatment of C. S. Peirce's unique
concept of habit. Habit animated the pragmatists of the 19th and
early 20th centuries, who picked up the baton from classical
scholars, principally Aristotle. Most prominent among the
pragmatists thereafter is Charles Sanders Peirce. In our
vernacular, habit connotes a pattern of conduct. Nonetheless,
Peirce's concept transcends application to mere regularity or to
human conduct; it extends into natural and social phenomena, making
cohesive inner and outer worlds. Chapters in this anthology define
and amplify Peircean habit; as such, they highlight the dialectic
between doubt and belief. Doubt destabilizes habit, leaving open
the possibility for new beliefs in the form of habit-change; and
without habit-change, the regularity would fall short of habit -
conforming to automatic/mechanistic systems. This treatment of
habit showcases how, through human agency, innovative regularities
of behavior and thought advance the process of making the
unconscious conscious. The latter materializes when affordances
(invariant habits of physical phenomena) form the basis for
modifications in action schemas and modes of reasoning. Further,
the book charts how indexical signs in language and action are
pivotal in establishing attentional patterns; and how these habits
accommodate novel orientations within event templates. It is
intended for those interested in Peirce's metaphysic or semiotic,
including both senior scholars and students of philosophy and
religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as
mathematics, and the natural sciences.
Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our
contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even
more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence
cannot be described, let alone understood or addressed, unless tied
to the cultural settings that influence it. Its 27 chapters
researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities,
document violence in 22 distinct cultural setting in 17
nation-states of five continents. Internal to each society, a
number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to
social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or
guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and
beyond. Myrdene Anderson is an associate professor at Purdue
University. She is an anthropologist, linguist and semiotician. For
a citizen-scientist immersed in many cultural works, Anderson
considers violence an imperative intellectual and pragmatic issue.
However, this book was a collaborative issue. A majority of the
authors are anthropologists.
Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our
contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even
more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence
cannot be described, let alone understood or addressed, unless tied
to the cultural settings that influence it. Its 27 chapters
researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities,
document violence in 22 distinct cultural setting in 17
nation-states of five continents. Internal to each society, a
number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to
social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or
guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and
beyond. Myrdene Anderson is an associate professor at Purdue
University. She is an anthropologist, linguist and semiotician. For
a citizen-scientist immersed in many cultural works, Anderson
considers violence an imperative intellectual and pragmatic issue.
However, this book was a collaborative issue. A majority of the
authors are anthropologists.
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