Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique

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dc.contributor.authorBond, David
dc.contributor.authorBessire, Lucas
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-14T16:52:03Z
dc.date.available2016-10-14T16:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2014-08
dc.description.abstractWhat does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on how Indigenous alterity is coenvisioned and how the lively materiality of hydrocarbons is recognized, we develop an ethnographic and theoretical critique of ontological anthropology. This essay, then, provides an empirical counterweight to what the ontological turn celebrates of Native worlds and what it rejects of modernity. In it, we examine the methodological and conceptual investments of ontological anthropology. The figure of the ontological as commonly invoked, we argue, often narrows the areas of legitimate concern and widens the scope of acceptable disregard within social research. We chart how this paradigm’s analytical focus on the future redefines the coordinates of the political as well as anthropology’s relation to critique. Finally, we formulate three conceptual theses that encapsulate our criticism and open this discussion to further debate.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAmerican Ethnologist, 41(3): pp. 440-456. DOI: 10.1111/amet.12083en_US
dc.identifier.issn0094-0496
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11209/10460
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.subjectOntologyen_US
dc.subjectCritiqueen_US
dc.subjectNature–Cultureen_US
dc.subjectAlterityen_US
dc.subjectMaterialityen_US
dc.titleOntological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critiqueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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