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Definition

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-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?

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Stathern

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-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

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Hobraad

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-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

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Wastell

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-Ontology and Justice

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Wagner

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  • 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?
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Thinking Through Things

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  • 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