#YallQaeda and #YeeHawd: A Ranchers’ Rebellion in the Age of Terrorism

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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