A World of Many : : Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico / / Norbert Ross.
A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 1 b-w illus., 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home
- 3 Ontology and Resistance
- 4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and Framework Theories
- 5 Study Design and Methods
- 6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models
- 7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change, and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó
- 8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience, Values, and Ontologies
- 9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity
- 10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó
- 11 Concepts of “Alive” and “Living Kinds” Experience, Culture, and Ontology
- 12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of “Alive”
- 13 Being in Space
- 14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of Worlds
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR