The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in …

In recent decades, ethnographic research in Brazil has been influenced by a model termed
perspectivism that inverts the equation between nature (as a given) and culture (as …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the
presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on …

I have regularly contrasted nineteenth-century theories of religion to twentiethcentury ones.
In the nineteenth century, I have argued, religion was assumed to arise to serve the same …

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human
beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural …

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our
knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott …

Originally published in 2004 in the Common Knowledge symposium “Talking Peace with
Gods,” this article elaborates the nature and consequences of the perspectivist cosmologies …

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“Soul Hunters combines intimate ethnographic knowledge of Yukaghir hunting practices
with sophisticated phenomenological analysis and an impressive comparative range. The …