Part 1: Inventions & Provincializations

Asad, Talal. 1993. “The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category,” in T. Asad. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore–London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 27–54.

Fitzgerald, Timothy. 2000. “Part IV: Problems with the Category 'Culture',” in T. Fitzgerald, The Ideology of Religious Studies. New York – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 221–251.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000. “Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe” & “Reason and the Critique of Historicism,” in D. Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 3–23 & 237–255.

Part 2: Cosmological Realism

Stolow, Jeremy. 2013. “Introduction: Religion, Technology and the Thing in Between,” in J. Stolow ed., Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology and the Thing in Between. New York: Fordham University Press, 1–22.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1996. “The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology.” Current Anthropology 37.3: 395–428.

Löwy, Michael. 2009. “Capitalism as Religion: Walter Benjamin and Max Weber.” Historical Materialism, 17: 60–73.

Gad, Christopher et al. 2015. “Practical Ontology: Worlds in STS and Anthropology.” NatureCulture 3: 67–86.

Latour, Bruno. 2004. “Whose Cosmos, Which Cosmopolitics? Comments on the Peace Terms of Ulrich Beck.” Common Knowledge 10.3: 450–62.

Part 3: Cosmopolitics

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2011. “Zeno and the art of anthropology: of lies, beliefs, paradoxes, and other truths.” Common Knowledge 17.1: 128–145.

Blaser, Mario. 2016. “Is another cosmopolitics possible?” Cultural Anthropology 31.4: 545–570.

Harris, Oliver J. T. & John Robb. 2012. “Multiple Ontologies and the Problem of the Body in History.” AmericanAnthropologist 114.4: 668–679.

Part 4: Margins

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 1994. “From the Margins.” Cultural Anthropology 9: 279–297.