The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

AvMartin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ontological turn in the history of anthropology and elucidates its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades, showing how it has emerged in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de Castro, as well a number of younger scholars. Distinguishing this trajectory of thinking from related attempts to put questions of ontology at the heart of anthropological research, the book articulates critically the key methodological and theoretical tenets of the ontological turn, its prime epistemological and political implications, and locates it in the broader intellectual landscape of contemporary social theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-23
Mått:161 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt:690 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Departures in Anthropology
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107103887

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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. Morten Axel Pedersen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia (2011), which received honourable mention for the Bateson Prize, and Urban Hunters: Dreaming and Dealing in Times of Transition (with L. Højer, forthcoming). From 2011 to 2016 he held a Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Danish Research Council, sparking off his latest research of Lutheran Christian movements and vernacular political theory in Denmark.

Innehållsförteckning

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.