Ontology

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

-The realization of other reals.
-Accepting that others world views are true, that there is not just one reality.
-Things may not represent things but be them.
Anthropology of Ontology: How should we encounter the differently real?

Question 2

Stathern

Answer 2

-Ontology in Anthropology
“The problem begins when we begin to produce descriptions of the world”
-We struggle to meet, accept, describe and define practices outside of our own believes and reality

Question 3

Hobraad

Answer 3

-Ontology of Cuban Power/Powder
Powder is power!
• aché - powder Cuban diviners use during their séances
• Powder = divinatory power
• Does not signify or represent
• Using ontology, it is power
• Problematic to approach through dichotomy materiality/meaning

Question 4

Wastell

Answer 4

-Ontology and Justice

Question 5

Wagner

Answer 5

• Ontology and Time
• Different kinds of time? Or different ways of counting time?
• Does time have a structure as a clock does, or does it merely seem to have a structure, because a clock has one?

Question 6

Thinking Through Things

Answer 6

• What if meanings are not carried by things but are IDENTICAL to them?
• To take things encountered in the field as they present themselves, rather than immediately assuming that they signify, represent or stand for something