Abstract
The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate: Is Reconciliation Possible?
Highlights
This exciting special issue sets out to take the ‘anthropology of ontology’, along with its concern for indigenous animism, to a new level of analysis by pairing it with key issues originally raised by anthropology’s influential paradigm of reflexivity, the Writing Culture debate
ISSN 1558-5727 (Online) vi | Rane Willerslev implications of the daring route tackled by Swancutt and Mazard, which seeks to bring together the Writing Culture paradigm, the primary theory of reflexivity of the 1980s, with the theory currently in fashion in the study of animism— the anthropology of ontology
By coupling the anthropology of ontology’s passion for alien concepts with the Writing Culture paradigm’s passion for reflexivity and global interconnectivity, animism comes to be seen as an intellectual endeavor, a product of high-level abstract thinking
Summary
This exciting special issue sets out to take the ‘anthropology of ontology’ ( called the ‘ontological turn’), along with its concern for indigenous animism, to a new level of analysis by pairing it with key issues originally raised by anthropology’s influential paradigm of reflexivity, the Writing Culture debate. ISSN 1558-5727 (Online) vi | Rane Willerslev implications of the daring route tackled by Swancutt and Mazard, which seeks to bring together the Writing Culture paradigm, the primary theory of reflexivity of the 1980s, with the theory currently in fashion in the study of animism— the anthropology of ontology. The Reflexivity of Writing Culture versus Alterity in the Anthropology of Ontology
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