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Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”: A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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Graeber, David·2015·HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
DOI 10.14318/hau5.2.003
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As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of what has been called the “ontological turn.” Among other engagements, I note that my own reflections on Malagasy fanafody, or medicine, are informed by just the sort of self-conscious reflections my informants make on epistemology, something that anthropologists typically ignore. After making note of the arguments of Roy Bhaskar that most post-Cartesian philosophy rests on an “epistemic fallacy,” I further argue that a realist ontology, combined with broad theoretical relativism, is a more compelling political position than the “ontological anarchy” and theoretical intolerance of ontological turn exponents.

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Authors
Graeber, D.
Venue
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2015-09
Volume
5
Issue
2
Pages
1-41
ISSN
  • 2049-1115 (ISSN-L)
  • 2575-1433
DOI
10.14318/hau5.2.003
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journal article
Language
en
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