Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen

Holbraad & Pedersen, The Ontological Turn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781107103887
• ISBN-10: 1107103886
• Artikelnr.: 45155506

Autorenporträt

Martin Holbraad is Professor of Social Anthropology at University College London. He is author of Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (2012), and co-editor of Thinking Through Things: Theorizing Artefacts Ethnographically (2007). Having studied the relationship between religious and political practices in Cuba since the late 1990s, he currently holds a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for a 5-year project titled Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics, leading a team of researchers to chart comparatively the formation of revolutionary personhood in selected countries of Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa region.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the ontological turn in anthropology
1. Other ontological turns
2. Analogic anthropology: Wagner's inventions and obviations
3. Relational ethnography: Strathern's comparisons and scales
4. Natural relativism: Viveiros de Castro's perspectivism and multinaturalism
5. Things as concepts
6. After the relation
Conclusion
Bibliography.