The Ontological Turn
Douban
An Anthropological Exposition
Martin Holbraad / Morten Axel Pedersen
overview
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.
contents
List of Figures and Boxes
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Th e Ontological Turn in Anthropology
Three Ontological Turnings
An Overview of the Book
1 Other Ontological Turns
Philosophy and ‘Object- Oriented Ontology’
Science and Technology Studies
Alternative Ontology
Deep Ontologies
Our Ontological Turn
2 Analogic Anthropology：Wagner’s Inventions and Obviations
American Convention
Culture as Invention
The Obviation of Meaning
Myth and Its Obviation Sequences
Wagner’s Ontology
3 Relational Ethnography：Strathern’s Comparisons and Scales
Relations Everywhere
Comparison All the Way Down
Postplural Abstraction
Deep Hesitation
Trans- temporal Comparison
Strathern and Ontology：An Awkward Relationship
4 Natural Relativism: Viveiros de Castro’s Perspectivism and Multinaturalism
Amerindian Perspectivism
Savage Structuralism
Anthropology as Ontology
Taking People Seriously
Conceptual Self- determination
5 Things as Concepts
From Humanism to Posthumanism
Thinking Through Things
Rethinking Things
Powder and Its Conceptual Affordances
Talismans as Thought
Pragmatology, or Art Backwards
6 After the Relation
Christian Conversion and the New Melanesian Ethnography
The Great Indoors：A Case of Christian Conversion
Taking Transcendence Seriously
Faith in Motion？ A Speculative Illustration
How to Keep Turning
Conclusion
Post- critical Anthropology
The Politics of Ontology
Bibliography
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