Anthropology of Ontologies

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 311-327

  Kohn, Eduardo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Anthropological theory; Multinaturalism; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOGRAPHY; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84929351014     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127     Document Type: Article

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