Fluid Ontologies

Myths are best understood as a convergence of voices from across times and cultures. They are the instruments through which authors and audiences seek to grapple with questions about the fundamental nature of the universe. The answers however constantly change in light of changing circumstances such as the interface between western and non-western cultures or cataclysmic events. The authors argue that these societies'' worldviews assume that the process of flow between events rather than the nature of the events is critical to a model of human sociality.Boundaries whether of a ritual physical or social nature are perceived as constantly broken by the exchange of ideas across time space and peoples. Our understanding of such issues as gender relations and the body social change imagination play and the conceptualization of power is furthered by probing how it is that myth is both expressive as well as constitutive of human thought on these topics.