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Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference
Abstract
This book explores how one measures and analyzes human alterity and difference in an interconnected and ever-globalizing world. This book critically assesses the impact of what has often been dubbed ‘the ontological turn’ within anthropology in order to provide some answers to these questions. In doing so, the book explores the turn’s empirical and theoretical limits, accomplishments, and potential. The book distinguishes between three central strands of the ontological turn, namely worldviews, materialities, and politics. It presents empirically rich case studies, which help to elaborate on the potentiality and challenges which the ontological turn’s perspectives and approaches may have to offer.
Details | Table of Contents
anthropological engagements with human and non-human worlds
pp.1-40
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_1pp.43-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_2the problem of the kharisiri in the andes
pp.65-87
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_3ontological conflicts and religion-making in an indonesian court
pp.89-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_4ontological dynamics, radical alterity, and the "otherwise within"
pp.113-133
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_5an assemblage analysis of householding practices
pp.137-158
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_6critical ethnography and the "ontological turn" in anthropology and educational studies
pp.159-179
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_7Tim Ingold's "ontology of dwelling" revisited
pp.181-201
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_8ontic violence and the politics of anticipation
pp.205-228
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_9from different worlds to osmotic worlding
pp.229-252
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_10the everyday politics of world-making in contemporary Peru
pp.253-272
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_11truth and doubt in the context of ontological inquiry
pp.273-294
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_12Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
Pages: 312
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-40474-5
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-40475-2
Full citation:
Enge Bertelsen Bjørn, Bendixsen Synnve (2016) Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.