This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly

This book explores how one measures and analyzes human alterity and difference in an interconnected and ever-globalizing world. This book critically assesses th

Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifá, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, Truth in Moti

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has b