#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
Why An Open-Access Publishing Cooperative Can Work: A Proposal for the AAA’s Journal Portfolio
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bi... More
Open Access: A Collective Ecology for AAA Publishing in the Digital Age
Just over a year ago Cultural Anthropology (CA) went open access. It has been an exhilarating experience, which has seen the journal engage new publics and conv... More
On Doing the Right Thing: The Rights of Readers
I am super-excited and impressed by the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) decision to make Cultural Anthropology open access—it's a bold move and one... 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