Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's "ontology of dwelling" - CORE Reader
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namely how we come perceive the natural environment differentlyand to what degree we can gain information about the life world of others. Recently, there has been explicit attempts to revise what we could term the'relativist paradigm' in the study of environmental perceptions and the privilegingof o
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- namely how we come perceive the natural environment differentlyand to what degree we can gain information about the life world of others.
- Recently, there has been explicit attempts to revise what we could term the'relativist paradigm' in the study of environmental perceptions and the privilegingof our own ontology in our depiction of the life world of others.
- where he develops his alternative to cultural relativism; the 'ontology of dwellng'
- In order to study the variation in how the environment is constituted,anthropologists therefore first turned to linguistics and ethno-semantics
- The goal of ethnoscIence was to use linguistics as a toolfor understanding folk-taxonomies of the environment as perceived by the usersof that environment.
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