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hermeneutics and world construction in Maranao disputing
Author(s) -
BENTLEY G. CARTER
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1984.11.4.02a00020
Subject(s) - habitus , dialectic , hermeneutics , epistemology , sociology , subjectivity , meaning (existential) , relation (database) , power (physics) , politics , preconscious , social science , philosophy , political science , cultural capital , law , unconscious mind , physics , quantum mechanics , database , computer science
Recent studies have analyzed disputing and dispute resolution as cultural processes, focusing on meaning construction and its relation to constitutive principles of social structure. Ricoeur's text model provides a methodological basis for such analysis. According to this model, the meaning appropriated from texts (case accounts) depends on culturally specific assumptions about subjectivity (being in the world), referentiality (truth and truthfinding), and interlocution (third‐party functions and authority). Description of these assumptions, in their dialectical relation to the substantive content of case account's, allows partial characterization of the Maranao “horizon” or “habitus,” the preconscious basis for Maranao perception and experience. The described features of Maranao habitus are explained, using the theory of practice, by topographic and ecological constraints on accumulation of economic and political power . [interpretive anthropology, disputing and dispute resolution, Philippines]