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

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-41

  Graeber, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical Realism; Epistemology; Madagascar; Magic; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948685968     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau5.2.003     Document Type: Review

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