A World of Many
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A World of Many

Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico

  1. 209 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A World of Many

Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico

About this book

A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of ChenalhĆ³, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children's agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children's agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Tilte Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home
  8. 3. Ontology and Resistance
  9. 4. Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and Framework Theories
  10. 5. Study Design and Methods
  11. 6. Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models
  12. 7. From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change, and Spatial Organization in ChenalhĆ³
  13. 8. Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience, Values, and Ontologies
  14. 9. Growing Up in ChenalhĆ³: Knowledge Sources and the Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity
  15. 10. What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in ChenalhĆ³
  16. 11. Concepts of ā€œAliveā€ and ā€œLiving Kindsā€: Experience, Culture, and Ontology
  17. 12. How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of ā€œAliveā€
  18. 13. Being in Space
  19. 14. One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of Worlds
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. About the Author