possible for local inhabitants as well as local and foreign ‘innovators’ to enact deltaic landscapes in radically divergent ways. Here we focus on divergent but co-existing ontologies in the Chao Phraya Delta in Thailand. Characterizing these ontologies
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Delta Ontologies
Infrastructural Transformations in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
Atsuro Morita and Casper Bruun Jensen
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 118–133 (16 total)
The Ontological Turn
Taking Different Worlds Seriously
Andrew Pickering
nonhuman world we all inhabit. There’s nothing very disturbing there after all. But in the twenty-first century, the social constructivist consensus has broken down, and both anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) have taken an ontological
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 134–150 (17 total)
Jeanne Favret-Saada’s Minimal Ontology
Belief and Disbelief of Mystical Forces, Perilous Conditions, and the Opacity of Being
Theodoros Kyriakides
This article explores belief and disbelief in Jeanne Favret-Saada’s writings on witchcraft and connects them to the ontological turn in anthropology. The term ‘ontology’ carries a long philosophical trajectory, and its appropriation in anthropology
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 68–82 (15 total)
Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis
T. M. S. Evens
This essay argues that the Manchester case study method or situational analysis has theoretical implications more radical than Gluckman was in a position to see, implications bearing on the nature of the reality of society. In effect, the essay is an anthropological exercise in ontology. It maintains that the problems situational analysis was designed to address were integral to, and hence irresolvable in, the Durkheimian social ontology then characterizing British social anthropology, and that situational analysis insinuated an altogether different ontology. The latter is adumbrated here by appeal to certain Heideggerian concepts in an effort to bring into relief the unique capacity of situational analysis to capture social practice in its dynamic openness and, correlatively, in relation to human agency as a distinctively creative force.
Unsettling the Land
Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Colonialism
Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove
What are the stakes of different ontologies of land in settler colonialism and Indigenous movements for decolonization and environmental justice? Settler colonialism describes a structure of exogenous domination in which Indigenous inhabitants of a
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 57–74 (18 total)
Righting Names
The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice
Rebekah Sinclair
connected to a particular ontology that understands individuals as the fundamental units of reality and thus of ecology, biology, anthropology, politics, ethics, law, and so on. Why is this important for thinking about environmental management from an
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–106 (16 total)
Can Time Be Tricked?
A Theoretical Introduction
Felix Ringel
2004 ; Bear 2014a ) already offer the space of a solid analysis of the role time plays in human life. A metaphysical distinction between the past and the future is one I wish to draw here, and it is an implicit ontological distinction for my informants
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 22–31 (10 total)
What Is Money?
A Definition Beyond Materiality and Quantity
Emanuel Seitz
properties of quantity and materiality. I will thereby present a discussion on the ontology of money while aiming to avoid oversimplification or overcomplication. A short discussion of two recent works on money might be illuminating here. Firstly, Noam Yuran
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–129 (16 total)
Between Two Truths
Time in Physics and Fiji
Naoki Kasuga
This article conducts an anthropological analysis of time, beginning with an examination of the Fijian movement Viti Kabani (Fiji Company). The examination is based on an ontological consideration. Although there are exceptions (e.g., Gell 1992
Anthropology and What There Is
Reflections on 'Ontology'
Paolo Heywood
This piece reflects on two 'ontological turns': the recent anthropological movement and that occasioned earlier in analytic philosophy by the work of W. V. O. Quine. I argue that the commitment entailed by 'ontology' is incompatible with the laudable aim of the 'ontological turn' in anthropology to take seriously radical difference and alterity.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 143–151 (9 total)