Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference
ISBN-10
331940475X
ISBN-13
9783319404752
Category
Social Science
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2017-01-03
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Synnøve Bendixsen

Description

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.

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