"Lucid, insightful, and absolutely original, Rough Metaphysics vastly expands the scope and possibility of the anthropological discipline. Peter Skafish demonstrates how, despite our academic prejudices to stabilize knowledge in a contextually bounded self, we must learn new modes of thought that enable us to listen to what someone like Jane Roberts can reveal about our own multiplicity and the possibilities that this recognition might entail."–Eduardo Kohn, author of How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
"Highly original, beautifully written, and thoughtfully structured, Rough Metaphysics escapes the recursive loops by which socio-cultural anthropology often proceeds, allowing Peter Skafish to probe more deeply than almost anyone else into the implications of 'taking seriously' the ontological framework of an anthropologist's interlocutor. In doing so, he offers a sharp criticism of anthropology's persistent concern with categories of analysis that obviate such attention."–Marilyn Strathern, author of Relations: An Anthropological Account