Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319404741
• ISBN13: 9783319404745
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.6"