Rik Pinxten
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Belgian anthropologist
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Rik Pinxten's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Ghent University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rik Pinxten is a professor and researcher in cultural anthropology at Ghent University. Between 2003 and 2010 he was chairman of the Liberal Humanist Association of Flanders, the Flemish section of The Humanist Association . He is chairman of the Center for Intercultural Communication and Interaction of the University of Ghent. Together with Gerard Mortier, he was an advocate for the creation of the progressive Music Forum "The Krook" in Ghent. In 2004, he received the Ark Prize of the Free Word for his book The Artistic Society.
Rik Pinxten's Published Works
Published Works
- Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (169)
- Anthropology of space (1983) (100)
- The Anthropology of Space: Exploration into the Natural Philosophy and Semantics of the Navajo (1985) (51)
- The Anthropology of Space: Explorations into the Natural Philosophy and Semantics of the Navajo (1985) (42)
- Evolutionary Epistemology: A Multiparadigm Program (1987) (41)
- Politics in an Indian canyon? Some thoughts on the implications of ethnomathematics (2011) (39)
- Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages (1999) (36)
- Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein-Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma (2003) (26)
- When the Day Breaks: Essays in Anthropology and Philosophy (1997) (23)
- When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts (2009) (21)
- ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM (1994) (20)
- Ethnomathematics and Its Practice. (1994) (19)
- ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPACE: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (1984) (17)
- Towards a Navajo Indian Geometry. (1987) (15)
- Ethnomathematics in Practice (2007) (15)
- Geometry education and culture (1991) (14)
- Intercultural education and Complex Instruction. Some remarks and questions from an anthropological perspective on learning (2000) (13)
- Universalism versus Relativism in Language and Thought: Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses (1976) (12)
- European Identity: Diversity in Union (2007) (11)
- On Learning a Comparative View (1990) (10)
- Evolutionary epistemology : a multiparadigm program with a complete evolutionary epistemology bibliography (1987) (10)
- Comparing Time and Temporality in Cultures (1995) (10)
- Cultural Dynamics: a Vision and a Perspective (1988) (9)
- 7. Epistemic universals. A contribution to cognitive anthropology (1976) (7)
- MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education (2015) (7)
- How anthropology can contribute to mathematics education (2013) (6)
- Evolutionary Epistemology Today: Converging Views from Philosophy, the Natural and the Social Sciences (1987) (6)
- Culture and politics : identity and conflict in a multicultural world (2004) (6)
- Some remarks on Navajo geometry and piagetian genetic theory (1991) (4)
- IN and ICE as a Means to Promote a ‘New Personhood’ in Europe (1997) (4)
- Knowledge as a Cultural Phenomenon (1992) (3)
- Universalism and Relativism of Knowledge Dissipate. The Intercultural Perspective (2009) (3)
- The Creation of God (2010) (2)
- Navajo spatial representation and Navajo geometry (1984) (2)
- Separation, Integration and Citizenship, reply to Glenn (2006) (1)
- Worldviews, science and us : interdisciplinary perspectives on worlds, cultures and society : Leo Apostel Center, Brussels Free University, August 2005 ; July 2007 ; September 2010 (2011) (1)
- Anthropology of space : explorations in natural philosophy and semantcis of Navajo Indians (1980) (1)
- Education in a Post-industrial World (2016) (1)
- Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies: Comparative Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology (2014) (1)
- Books Reviews : Paul Vandenbroeck (ed.): America. Bride of the Sun. Antwerp: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992. 528 pp (1992) (0)
- Learning Formal Thinking in a Culture-Specific Context (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER 10: Religious Artifacts 173 (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER 12: Atheistic Religiosity? 227 (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews : Claude LÉVI-STRAUSS & Didier EERIBON, Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss (translated by Paula Wissing). Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 1991 VIII + 184 pp., $ 22.95 (Cloth), £ 15.95 (Cloth (1992) (0)
- CHAPTER 11: Politics, Ethics and Fundamentalism 203 (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews : Nabhan, G.P., Gathering the Desert. Illustrations by P. Mirocha. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986 (1988) (0)
- Appendix B. “The Device”: A Synoptic and Revised Edition of the Universal Frame of Reference for Spatial Analysis (1983) (0)
- SOME TRENDS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ACTION (2011) (0)
- DIFFERENT 0: Science and Religion: Where Do I Stand? 35 (2010) (0)
- Objectivism versus Relativism: What Are We Arguing About? (1992) (0)
- Book Reviews : B. Rogoff, J. Mistry, A. Göucü, C. Mosier, Guided Participation in Cultural Activity by Toddlers and Caregivers. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 58, 8, 1993. The University of Chicago Press, $14.00 (paper (1993) (0)
- Book Reviews : Claude Karnoouh: L'invention du Peuple. Chroniques de Roumanie. Paris, Arcantère, 1990, 336, FF 150 (1990) (0)
- CHAPTER 8: Complex Religious Phenomena 131 (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER 1: Religion: a First Approach 13 (2010) (0)
- Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu. PeterGraif. Chicago: Hau Books, 2018. 234 pp. (2020) (0)
- II. Semantic Analysis of Navajo Spatial Talk (1983) (0)
- New perspektives [i.e. perspectives] in Belgian anthropology, or the postcolonial awakening (1984) (0)
- IV. Building a Model of Navajo Spatial Knowledge (1983) (0)
- CHAPTER 7: Religious Language 113 (2010) (0)
- The Minyanka Social System and World-View (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews : Furth, H.G., Knowledge as Desire: An essay on Freud and Piaget. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. x + 179 p (1988) (0)
- CHAPTER 3: Religion, Identity and Learning Processes 39 (2010) (0)
- Economy and Culture (2001) (0)
- Bookreviews : Steele, Ross and Threadgold, Terry (Eds.) Language Topics. Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday.. John Benjamins, Amsterdam 1987, 2 Vols., XXXII, 483 p., XVI, 669 p., $ 160 (cloth) (1989) (0)
- Book Reviews : GREGORY BATESON and CATHERINE MARY BATESON. Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred. Hampshire: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. £ 16.40 (cloth) (1989) (0)
- BookReviews : Arthur Danto: The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, XVI, 216, $ 25.00 (cloth (1988) (0)
- Morality and knowledge. Teachings from a Navajo experience (1979) (0)
- Webster, Anthony K. Intimate grammars: an ethnography of Navajo poetry. x, 195 pp., illus., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2015. £29.71 (cloth) (2017) (0)
- On going beyond kinship, sex and the tribe : interviews on contemporary anthropology, its philosophical stands and its applicability in the USA (1979) (0)
- I. The Natural Philosophy of Navajo Language and World View (1983) (0)
- VI. General Conclusions (1983) (0)
- On Learning and Tradition: A Comparative View (1994) (0)
- Education in a School Context (2016) (0)
- Appendix A. List of Consultants (1983) (0)
- Different 1: Birth and Baptism. A View of an Anthropologist and Atheist 105 (2010) (0)
- Donald Campbell on Cultural Relativism. (1997) (0)
- Mathematics Education and Culture: Learning Theories (2016) (0)
- Neo-Nationalism, Religion and the Politics of the Right in Belgium (2020) (0)
- CHAPTER 4: General Concepts and Terms 49 (2010) (0)
- Plea in favor of ‘trivial mathematics’ in a multimathemacy educational perspective (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER 6: Religious Action 85 (2010) (0)
- Cosmopolitics and the dialogical self A cosmopolítica e o self dialógico (2019) (0)
- Books Reviews : Robert A. Rubinstein (Ed.), Fieldwork. The Correspondence of Robert Redfield & Sol Tax. With an Introduction by the editor. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. xxi, 354. Cloth, £30.50 (1992) (0)
- The Primary Constitution of the Semiotic World in the Individual and its Destruction in Schizophrenics (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews : Oliver, Paul, Dwellings: The House Across the World. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1987. 256 p. 34.95 (cloth), 21.95 (paperback (1988) (0)
- Plunder: when the rule of law is illegal – By Ugo Mattei & Laura Nader (2008) (0)
- Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics combined: A European agora (2011) (0)
- Cosmopolitics and the dialogical self (2009) (0)
- The energy reader – Edited by Laura Nader (2011) (0)
- Different 2: Genesis in the Bible. The Creation of Heaven and Earth 169 (2010) (0)
- Negotiation of Conflicts: Dialogue or Entente (1998) (0)
- The notion of 'concept’ in cognitive psychology. An overview and critical analysis (1972) (0)
- CHAPTER 2: Old and New Models 21 (2010) (0)
- Language and Thought (2016) (0)
- Some Trends in the Anthropology of Action Sciences - An Essay on Knowing to Act and Acting to Know (1987) (0)
- INTRODUCTION : RACISM IN METROPOLITAN AREAS (2015) (0)
- CHAPTER 9: Religious Ways of Learning 147 (2010) (0)
- The Developmental Dynamics of Peace (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews : Nelson Goodman & Catherine Z. Elgin, Reconceptions in Philosophy & Other Arts & Sciences. London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1988, £25; XI, 174 (1989) (0)
- III. Linguistic Material on Navajo Spatial Meaning (1983) (0)
- 13. Comparative Anthropology and Rhetorics in Cultures. Reflections on Argumentation Theories and Forms of Life (1989) (0)
- Complex Mathematical Activities (2016) (0)
- Multimathemacy and Education. General Principles (2016) (0)
- Nader, Laura. Contrarian anthropology: the unwritten rules of academia. xiii, 489 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, £28.00 (paper) (2019) (0)
- CHAPTER 5: Cosmology and Religion 65 (2010) (0)
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