A Mayan ontology of poultry: Selfhood, affect, animals, and ethnography

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kockelman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
William James ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Cloud Forests ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article has three key themes: ontology (what kinds of beings there are in the world), affect (cognitive and corporeal attunements to such entities), and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). To explore these themes, I focus on women's care for chickens among speakers of Q'eqchi' Maya living in the cloud forests of highland Guatemala. Broadly speaking, I argue that these three themes are empirically, methodologically, and theoretically inseparable. In addition, the chicken is a particularly rich site for such ethnographic research because it is simultaneously self, alter, and object for its owners. To undertake this analysis, I adopt a semiotic stance towards such themes, partly grounded in the writings of the American pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and George Herbert Mead, and partly grounded in recent and classic scholarship by linguists, psychologists, and anthropologists. (Linguistic anthropology, political economy, ontology, affect, selfhood, animals, chickens, Mesoamerica, Maya, Q'eqchi')*

Process is How Process Does

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Helin ◽  
Tor Hernes ◽  
Daniel Hjorth ◽  
Robin Holt
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
William James ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Self Force ◽  
The Relationship

Process philosophy originally referred to a small group of philosophers including Henri Bergson, William James, and Alfred North Whitehead as well as Heraclitus. These thinkers view the world processually, working from within things and reversing the relationship between ideas and life. This Handbook explores process philosophy’s relationships to organisation studies by focusing on five aspects: temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality. Each article considers the life and work of a specific philosopher, such as Jacques Derrida, Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hannah Arendt, and Jacquese Lacan, and how their work could potentially be used to think processually in organization and management studies.

Teaching Pragmatist Epistemology to Undergraduate Education Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Saavedra-Caballero ◽  
Carla Aranzazu De la Torre-Cabañas ◽  
Nicole Suñiga-Muñoz ◽  
Maria Elena Huerta Rivero ◽  
Zaira Celeste Ballinas-Lázaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
William James ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Education Students ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Josiah Royce

This book is an edited collection of essays made by undergraduate and postgraduate students and lecturers of education, particularly reflecting the experiences and thoughts that developed sparked by a series of lectures and readings on Pragmatist Epistemology given by Paniel Reyes-Cárdenas. The essays explore different routes of application and action that are released after considering the thoughts of the classical pragmatists: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, Jane Addams, and George Herbert Mead.

Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Joas
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
Infantile Development

Together with Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, George Herbert Mead is considered one of the classic representatives of American pragmatism. He is most famous for his ideas about the specificities of human communication and sociality and about the genesis of the ‘self’ in infantile development. By developing these ideas, Mead became one of the founders of social psychology and – mostly via his influence on the school of symbolic interactionism – one of the most influential figures in contemporary sociology. Compared to that enormous influence, other parts of his philosophical work are relatively neglected.

John Cage and George Herbert Mead: The Unknown Influence of Van Meter Ames

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-369
Author(s):  
SERENA YANG
Keyword(s):  
John Cage ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The University ◽  
Compositional Control ◽  
American Thought

AbstractAs John Cage wrote in his bookA Year from Monday, the “current use for art [is] giving instances of society suitable for social imitation—suitable because they show ways . . . people can do things without being told or telling others what to do.” Cage's ideal anarchic music emphasizes not only renouncing compositional control, but also the process of self-discovery happening to everyone, a process that leads participants to discover their creative abilities. This paper argues that Cage's penchant for self-discovery came from his understanding of George Herbert Mead's theories of the process of individuation (the “me” and the “I”). Cage discovered Mead through readingZen and American Thought(1962) by his friend Van Meter Ames, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, who saw the compatibility between Zen and Mead's concept of self in the capacity of the “I,” a phase of self whose unpredictable steps contribute to human innovation. Cage found the possibility of overthrowing the thought of the world through triggering a self-discovery of the “I” in everyone. He realized this idea in his happenings, such as0’00”, by requiring performers to respond to the simple descriptions without specifying sound or duration.

George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World

Man and World ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Katherine Tillman ◽  
Barbara C. Anderson ◽  
Laurence Lampert
Keyword(s):  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The World

Democratic values in the aesthetics of classic American pragmatism

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Skowroński
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractIn the present paper an interpretation of the political dimension of pragmatic aesthetic reflection is proposed. The interconnection between politics and aesthetics in three classic American pragmatists: William James (1842–1910), John Dewey (1859–1952), and George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) is evoked. The author claims that by emphasizing the role of democratic values in philosophy and life, the classic American pragmatists encroach upon the field of the arts and aesthetics. Their emphasis put upon individual activity, free expression of thoughts, plurality of the forms of expression, and acceptance of criticism as a tool helping create better solutions in human cooperation can easily be converted into the postulates about the character of the artistic principles and of the nature of the aesthetic norms and values.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Family Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Family ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Social Applications

Enrique Pichon-Rivière, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, worked and wrote in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century, but his work has not so far been translated into English. From the beginning, Pichon-Rivière understood the social applications of analytic thinking, centring his ideas on "el vinculo", which is generally translated as "the link", but could equally be translated as "the bond". The concept that each individual is born into human social links, is shaped by them, and simultaneously contributes to them inextricably ties people's inner worlds to the social world of family and society in which they live. Pichon-Rivière believed, therefore, that family analysis and group and institutional applications of analysis were as important as individual psychoanalysis. Many of the original family and couple therapists from whom our field learned trained with him. Because his work was centred in the analytic writings of Fairbairn and Klein, as well as those of the anthropologist George Herbert Mead and the field theory of Kurt Lewin, his original ideas have important things to teach us today. This article summarises some of his central ideas such as the link, spiral process, the single determinate illness, and the process of therapy.

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