A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that
resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary
philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is
receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate
disciplines at present. This book provides the first
anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development.
It traces the roots of the ontological turn in the history of
anthropology and elucidates its emergence as a distinct theoretical
orientation over the past few decades, showing how it has emerged
in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de
Castro, as well a number of younger scholars. Distinguishing this
trajectory of thinking from related attempts to put questions of
ontology at the heart of anthropological research, the book
articulates critically the key methodological and theoretical
tenets of the ontological turn, its prime epistemological and
political implications, and locates it in the broader intellectual
landscape of contemporary social theory.
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