World of Many Worlds

Marisol de la Cadena is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds, also published by Duke University Press.Mario Blaser is Associate Professor of Geography and Archaeology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the author of Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena  11. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern  232. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto CorsÍn JimÉnez  533. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers  834. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran  1125. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien  1316. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski  172Contributors  205Index  209

"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." - Sally A. Applin (Journal of International and Global Studies) “A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” - Mat Keel (AAG Review of Books)