Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
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DOI：
10.1111/amet.12083
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Bond, David
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作者：
Bessire, Lucas;Bond, David
本体论人类学承诺了什么，它假设了什么，它如何对我们现在的生活形式做出贡献？根据我们各自关于如何共同设想土著替代性以及如何认识碳氢化合物的生动物质性的实地调查，我们对本体论人类学进行了民族志和理论批判。因此，这篇文章为本体论转向对本土世界的赞美和对现代性的拒绝提供了一种经验上的平衡。在其中，我们检查本体论人类学的方法和概念投资。我们认为，在社会研究中，本体论的形象经常缩小了合理关注的领域，扩大了可接受的忽视的范围。我们绘制了这一范式对未来的分析焦点如何重新定义政治学的坐标以及人类学与批判的关系。最后，我们提出了三个概念性的论点，概括了我们的批评，并为进一步的辩论打开了讨论的大门。
What 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.