The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology

ISBN: 9783030049355 (3030049353)
Edition Information: 1st ed. 2019
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Pages: 215
Date Published: 10th May 2019

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Native American Epistemology
Ethical Knowing
Native Truthing
Chapter 3: Native American Epistemology and Embodied Cognitive Theory
The Cognitive Unconscious and Native American Ways of Knowing
Embodied Metaphor and Narrative in Native Cognitive Schemas
Chapter 4: Native American Epistemology and Dancing
Dancing as Native American Storytelling
Creating Meaning through Embodied Metaphor whilst Dancing
Creating and Finding Truth Through Native Dancing
Chapter 5: Native American Dancing: The Truthing in Performative Knowing

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This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance is regarded both as an integral cultural conduit and “a doorway to a powerful wisdom,” Shay Welch argues that dance and dancing can both create and communicate knowledge. She explains that dance—as a form of oral, narrative storytelling—has the power to communicate knowledge of beliefs and histories, and that dance is a form of embodied narrative storytelling. Welch provides analytic clarity on how this happens, what conditions are required for it to succeed, and how dance can satisfy the relational and ethical facets of Native epistemology.

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