Three ontological provocations

Abstract

The article seeks to clarify some of the basic premises of the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in contemporary anthropology. Taking off from two examples that reveal some of the distinguishing characteristics of this anthropological approach, the article shows that, understood as a strictly methodological intervention (above all as a technology for anthropological description), the ontological turn involves deepening and radicalizing three anthropological tenets that have a long history in our discipline, namely reflexivity, conceptualization and experimentation.

Translator: Alonso Rodrigo Zamora Corona.