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Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference
. Ed(S): Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge; Bendixsen, Synnove
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Hardback. Editor(s): Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge; Bendixsen, Synnove. Series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 555.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319404745
SKU
V9783319404745
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge; Bendixsen, Synnove
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.
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