Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2016

312 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-40474-5

Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference

Edited by

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Synnve Bendixsen

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 casestudies, which help to elaborate on the potentiality and challenges which the ontological turn’s perspectives and approaches may have to offer.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2

Full citation:

Enge Bertelsen, B. , Bendixsen, S. (eds) (2016). Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Recalibrating alterity, difference, ontology

Bendixsen Synnøve

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