#YallQaeda and #YeeHawd: A Ranchers’ Rebellion in the Age of Terrorism
For many it may be a bright new year, but for antigovernment protesters the long holiday weekend was an opportunity to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refu... More
Field of Difference: Limitations of the Political in Ontological Anthropology
Ontological anthropologists have moved beyond reflexive anthropology because they are fully aware and intentionally involved in choosing which analytic they use... More
The Form of the Otherwise
A quiet question was raised at the end of the roundtable on “The Politics of Ontology” about where writing fit into the discussion. The absence of the topic was... More
The Ontological Spin
This post is a distilled version of a longer essay, published in American Ethnologist as "Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique." The latest sal... More
"Otherwise Anthropology" Otherwise: The View from Technology
Recent thinking on the politics of ontology invites commentary on the ontological sensibility of what Elizabeth Povinelli (2011) calls “an anthropology of the o... More