Martin Holbraad (University College London), Morten Axel Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)

Broschiertes Buch

The Ontological Turn

Beschreibung

A controversial new orientation that resonates with wider developments in philosophy and social theory, the ontological turn and its implications for ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological analysis are the subject of vigorous debates. Drawing together these ongoing debates, this book provides the first anthropological exposition of this topic.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• New Departures in Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781107503946
• ISBN-10: 1107503949
• Artikelnr.: 45155249