The Dance of Person and Place -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Common Themes in American Indian Philosophy -- First Introductions -- Four Common Themes: A First Look -- Constructing an Actual American Indian World -- 2. Nelson Goodman's Constructivism -- Setting the Stage -- Fact, Fiction, and Feeders -- Ontological Pluralism -- True Versions and Well-Made Worlds -- Nonlinguistic Versions and the Advancement of Understanding -- 3. True Versions and Cultural Bias -- Constructive Realism:Variations on a Theme by Goodman -- True Versions and Cultural Bias -- An American Indian Well-Made Actual World -- 4. Relatedness, Native Knowledge,and Ultimate Acceptability -- Native Knowledge and Relatedness as a World-Ordering Principle -- Native Knowledge and Truth -- Native Knowledge and Verifi cation -- Native Knowledge and Ultimate Acceptability -- 5. An Expansive Conception of Persons -- A Western Conception of Persons -- Native Conceptions of Animate Beings and Persons -- An American Indian Expansive Conception of Persons -- 6. The Semantic Potency of Performance -- Opening Refl ections and Reminders About Performances -- Symbols and Their Performance -- The Shawnee Naming Ceremony -- Gifting as a World-Constructing Performance -- Closing Remarks About the Semantic Potency of Performances -- 7. Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle -- Goodman Briefl y Revisited -- Time, Events, and History or Space, Place, and Nature? -- Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle -- Circularity and Sacred Places -- Closing Remarks About Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle -- 8. The Dance of Person and Place -- American Indian Philosophy as a Dance of Person and Place -- Consequences, Speculations, and Closing Refl ections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O.

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