Communication, Comparative Cultures, and Civilizations Vol. 2

Callahan, C. (Ed.). (2012). Communication, comparative cultures, and civilizations (Vol. 2). New York: Hampton Press.

This is the second volume in the Communication, Comparative Cultures, and Civilizations publication series. The goal of this series is to present peer-reviewed, original scholarship that addresses the complexities between cultural practice and world view. The scholarly essays in this volume focus on the relationships between language and consciousness, including emerging, diverging, dominant and co-language, appropriation, extinction, and other approaches that would augment the understanding of language and consciousness.

As part of this series, the current volume contains essays that address dynamic, civilizational relationships within the fields of education, health, community, history, literature, culture, and values. These chapters offer unique perspectives that inform the reader of alternate ways of viewing complex cultural phenomena. Further, these distinctive approaches to cultural issues aid scholars in developing distinctive theoretical positions that give voice to alternative cultural and civilizational viewpoints.

Content:

Callahan, C. (2012). Technoculture, perspectivity, and the integration of consciousness. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 73-86). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Gallant, A. (2012). Witnessing the re-formation of gemeinschaft/gesellscahft: How does an integral perception of reality shape our experience and sense of community/society in the 21st century? In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 1-18). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Hsieh, E., & Kramer, E. M. (2012). The clashes of expert and layman talk: Constructing meanings of interpreter-mediated medical encounters. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 19-44). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Miller, G. (2012). Guilt and shame: Crime and punishment in perspectival and mythic society. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 87-122). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Mills, I. (2012). The poetry of dogen illustrating Gebserian poetics. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 45-62). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Murphy, J. (2012). Structural metaphors and the limits to social planning. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2, pp. 63-72). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.