Figured Worlds Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations

John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo. He is trained as an anthropologist, and his work encompasses economic anthropology, ethnicity, development studies, and the anthropology of religion with a focus on Japan and Southeast Asia Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork in Finnish Lapland and has written on comparative questions of environment, technology, and social organization in the circumpolar North, evolutionary theory in anthropology, biology, and history, the role of animals in human society, and issues in human ecology. His current research is in the anthropology of technology and environmental perception Bjarne Melkevik, DDL (Paris), is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Universite Laval. His main domains of research are legal philosophy and legal epistemology, international legal protection of Indigenous Peoples, and political Indigenous legal affairs David Parkin is Head of the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford. His research interests include religious transformation with special reference to Muslims in East Africa, Indian Ocean diasporas, healing systems, language use, and the politics of objects and artefacts Sylvie Poirier is Professor of Anthropology at Universite Laval. Her main domains of research include the anthropology of dreams, anthropology of religion, contemporary hunters and gatherers, and indigenous political and territorial claims in Australia and Canada, with a focus on Western Desert Aborigines (Australia) and the Atikamekw (north-central Quebec Colin Samson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex in England. He maintains interests in the areas of Native American history, politics, and art, as well as medical anthropology and environmental studies Eric Schwimmer was Professor of Anthropology at Universite Laval until his retirement in 1992. He taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 1974. He specialized in the Maori (New Zealand) and Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea Adrian Tanner is Honorary Research Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His current research deals with Moose Cree (Ontario) knowledge of their forest environment. He also conducts research in Fiji Sylvie Vincent, an independent researcher, has focused mainly on the oral tradition of the Quebec Innu, while working in a variety of other fields. She has been particularly interested in collecting stories told by the elders of events and phenomena from the past, which help us to understand how elderly Innu view their historyClammer, John is the author of 'Figured Worlds Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations', published 2004 under ISBN 9780802087492 and ISBN 0802087493.