<p>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
Critical Anthropological Engagments in Human Alterity and Difference
✍ Scribed by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Synnøve Bendixsen (Editors)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 315
- Series
- Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
- Category
- Library
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