Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

ISBN-13: 9783319821122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Bjrn Enge Bertelsen; Synnve Bendixsen

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. 

Synnøve Bendixsen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Head of International Migration and Ethnic Relations at Uni Research Rokkansenteret, Norway. 

Blurb

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.