Dwelling Telling: Literalness and Ontology
At a certain time during the filming of Daki Menan I began to question my own readiness to make metaphor of the experience of others. I began, instead, to regard the literal words of the Temi-Augama Anishinaabe elders with whom I was working as accurate representations of what they thought, especial...
| Published in: | Paideusis |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Philosophy of Education Society
2008
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| Online Access: | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1072464ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1072464ar |
| Summary: | At a certain time during the filming of Daki Menan I began to question my own readiness to make metaphor of the experience of others. I began, instead, to regard the literal words of the Temi-Augama Anishinaabe elders with whom I was working as accurate representations of what they thought, especially the way they thought about how the world worked. But if this move to literalism were justified, I had to acknowledge that what I thought to be the parameters of being would change. This paper is about that change, as mediated through the concept of attentive receptivity. |
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