Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-04-28
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieApproaches to Social Inequality and Difference
Antal sidor312
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319821122

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Chapter 1: Recalibrating Alterity, Difference, Ontology. Anthropological Engagements with Human and Non-Human Worlds.- Part I: Worldviews.- Chapter 2: Seeing, Being, and Knowing: The Relationality of Species in Chewong Animistic Ontology.- Chapter 3: Alterity, Predation, and Questions of Representation: The Problem of the Kharisiri in the Andes.- Chapter 4: False Prophets: Blasphemy and Ontological Contests in Indonesian Courts.- Chapter 5: Chronically Unstable Ontologies: Ontological Dynamics and the "Difference Within".- Part II: Materialities.- Chapter 6: The Hold Life Has in a Warao Village: Assembling Household and the Practicalities of Everyday Life.- Chapter 7: Disrupting School Smartness: Critical Ethnography of Schooling and the "Ontological Turn" in Anthropology and Educational Studies.- Chapter 8: Beyond Cultural Relativism? Tim Ingold's “Ontology of Dwelling” Revisited.- Part III: Politics.- Chapter 9: Ontological Turns within the Visual Arts: Ontic Violence and the Politics of Anticipation.- Chapter 10: Alter-Politics Reconsidered: From Different Worlds to Osmotic Worlding.- Chapter 11: “It Seems Like a Lie": Opening up the Political to World-Making Practices in Contemporary Peru.- Chapter 12: Reading Holbraad: Truth and Doubt in the Context of Ontological Inquiry.- Postscript: Taking the Ontological Turn Personally.