Ontology: A Difficult Keyword

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dc.contributor.authorBond, David
dc.contributor.authorBessire, Lucas
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-19T15:14:26Z
dc.date.available2016-10-19T15:14:26Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-25
dc.description.abstractOntology is hard to ignore in contemporary anthropology. From conference abstracts to journal word clouds and job descriptions, ontology is fast becoming a new keyword in marquee debates as well as in the unfolding identity and direction of the discipline. Yet, as even the most sophisticated participants and observers soon realize, the word itself is elusive and polysemous. It holds in unresolved tension diverse semantic genealogies, opposed spatiotemporal scales, and various materialist registers. This animating tension couples profound insights with lively disagreements. At the very least, perhaps we can all agree: Ontology is an instrumentally difficult word.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVirtual Issue, American Ethnologist, Ontology in American Ethnologist, 1980–2014en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11209/10468
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.titleOntology: A Difficult Keyworden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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