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“Coyote May Carry You off on His Tail”: A Shoshoni Perspective on Ethics
Author(s) -
Glowacka Maria,
Gould Drusilla
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2008.00003.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , sociology , key (lock) , engineering ethics , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , focus (optics) , environmental ethics , computer science , philosophy , engineering , artificial intelligence , physics , computer security , optics , programming language
SUMMARY In this article, we present a Shoshoni perspective on ethics and discuss examples of the ethical key concepts embedded in Deniwape, the traditional knowledge that has been transmitted orally within family lines. Deniwape represents a set of principles that delineate traditional connections between landscape, family, customary practices, and cultural values. We focus specifically on the semantic meanings and cultural usages of ethical key concepts to offer new insights into the understanding of traditional Shoshoni ethics.