ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that cultural models of Nature, provide sufficient grounds to establish fundamental probabilities for the components of the world. It explores a number of cultural models of Nature in communities all over the world. The book discusses how a Tongan preferential organization of the representation of spatial relationships is replicated in a good number of other domains of knowledge, for example, time, possession, kinship, and social relationships. It explores a different type of division characterizes the cultural model of an Andean community. The book outlines in a fashion similar to their Japanese and Lithuanian counterparts, the ≠Akhoe Hai//om people in Namibia. It analyses a common theme in their cultural model of Nature. The book looks at the relationships between the various components of Nature as regulated by a cycle.