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The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology
- Author: Welch, Shay
The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology
- Author: Welch, Shay
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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.
Contents
- 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
