Amerindian anthropology and cultural psychology: Crossing boundaries and meeting otherness` worlds


Autoria(s): GUIMARAES, Danilo Silva
Contribuinte(s)

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Data(s)

20/10/2012

20/10/2012

2011

Resumo

Addressing integrative possibilities between psychology and anthropology, this paper aims to design conceptual linkages between semiotic-cultural constructivist psychology and the anthropological theory of Amerindian perspectivism. From the psychological view, it is the interdependence between the structural and processual dimensions of the personal culture that makes parallels with Amerindian perspectivism fruitful. This anthropological frame proposes an experiment with native conceptions, which I argue similar to what Baldwin (1906) called sembling. Hence, it can be considered an active imitation of otherness` viewpoint in order to approach indigenous worlds. It is supposed that this procedure leads to the emergence of new symbolic elements configuring the cultural action field of each agency in interaction. It is proposed that ""making-believe`` the Amerindian is convergent with the dialogic-hermeneutic approach of semiotic-cultural constructivism. As a result of the present integrative effort, is designed a meta-model that multiplies the genetic process of concrete symbolic objects.

Identificador

CULTURE & PSYCHOLOGY, v.17, n.2, p.139-157, 2011

1354-067X

http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/32120

10.1177/1354067X11398309

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X11398309

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eng

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

Relação

Culture & Psychology

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Palavras-Chave #Amerindian perspectivism #dialogism #otherness #semiotic-cultural constructivism #symbolic resources #SELF #Psychology, Multidisciplinary
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