Morten Axel Pedersen: 2 books
Not Quite Shamans
Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores...
The Ontological Turn
An Anthropological Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
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...