April 25 & 27 Readings

Tuesday, April 25: What constitutes this turn?

• Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. “Exchanging Perspectives: The transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies Links to an external site..” Common Knowledge 10(3), 463–484.
• de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. “Story 1. Agreeing to Remember, Translating, and Carefully Co-Laborating” In Earth Beings. Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds Links to an external site.. Duke University Press, 2–34.

 

Thursday, April 27: Turns and the dangers of erasure

***NB: I’m giving a talk that day at the Latin America & Caribbean Studies Center: “Health Inequities, embodied sovereignty and the politics of COVID management in the French Caribbean Links to an external site.”. You’re all invited if you want to and can attend! It takes place from 12:30 to 2pm, so there are two options for class: Either you start without me at 1:30, or class starts at 2:30 and make space the following Tuesday to finish the discussion on this theme.

• Todd, Zoe. 2016. “An indigenous feminist’s take on the ontological turn: ‘Ontology’ is just another word for colonialism Links to an external site..” Journal of Historical Sociology 29(1), 4–22.
• Bessire, Lucas and David Bond. 2014. “Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique Links to an external site..” American Ethnologist 41 (3), 440–456.
• Jegathesan, Mythri. 2021 “Black Feminist Plots before the Plantationocene and Anthropology's ‘Regional Closets’ Links to an external site..” Feminist Anthropology 2, 78–93.

 

Additional resources mentioned in class:

• Graeber, David. 2015. “Radical Alterity Is Just Another Way Of Saying ‘Reality’: A Reply To Eduardo Viveiros De Castro.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2), 1-41.
• Kohn, Eduardo. 2015. "Anthropology of Ontologies." Annual Review of Anthropology 44, 311–327.