Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Mistaken Identities: The Task of Thinking in Dark Times 11
6. Chapter 2. Radical Empiricism and the Little Things of Life 23
7. Chapter 3. The Witch as a Category and as a Person 38
8. Chapter 4. The New Materialisms 56
9. Chapter 5. Words and Deeds 73
10. Chapter 6. Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism 88
11. Chapter 7. Existential Scarcity and Ethical Sensibility 103
12. Chapter 8. Identification and Description: An Essay on Metaphor 117
13. Chapter 9. Islam and Identity among the Kuranko 134
14. Chapter 10. In Defense of Existential Anthropology 150
15. Notes 170
16. Index 199