{"product_id":"a-world-of-many-ontology-and-child-development-among-the-maya-of-southern-mexico-hardback-9781978830325","title":"A World of Many; Ontology and Child Development Among the Maya of Southern Mexico (Hardback) 9781978830325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA World of Many\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOntology and Child Development Among the Maya of Southern Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNorbert Ross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978830325\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e230 pages, 1 b-w illus., 1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"I love books like this that challenge us to turn our thinking about ontology upside down. Scholars of young people often begin by examining what ontology teaches about childhood. We can forget how valuable it is to explore how notions of childhood actually reshape ontology. A World of Many is a successful experiment in inverting our assumptions about what we think we know about what we know.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Rachael Stryker, co-editor of Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Norbert Ross questions the foundations of everything—the architecture of reality, knowledge, and learning—in his investigations of the Mexican community of Chenalhó. The observations and experiences of Tzotzil maya children help us understand what it is to be human, to be alive, and to have a soul and how life is activism. This methodologically innovative and theoretically intricate project invites readers to appreciate in a nuanced and profound way diversity in humanity and ways of being in the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e— Kathryn Sampeck, co-editor of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in early Modern Mesoamerica\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA World of Many\u003c\/i\u003e explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, 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. \u003ci\u003eA World of Many\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ebeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ontology and Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and\u003cbr\u003e Framework Theories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Study Design and Methods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change,\u003cbr\u003e and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience,\u003cbr\u003e Values, and Ontologies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the\u003cbr\u003e Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Concepts of \"Alive and \"Living Kinds\": Experience,\u003cbr\u003e Culture, and Ontology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of \"Alive\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Being in Space\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of Worlds\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640472596760,"sku":"9781978830325","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-world-of-many-ontology-and-child-development-among-the-maya-of-southern-mexico-hardback-9781978830325","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}