Today, "shizen" and "Nature" are taken to be more or less equivalent in today, both referring to a realm of forces and entities independent of human activity, but also available to humans as a...Read more
This introduction to a forum in HAU, written by Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita, depicts "the anthropological genealogies that led to the Japanese interest in 'ontological matters,' and it offers an entry point for understanding Japanese interpretations of, and responses to, this set of...Read more
In the slow turn away from speculative philosophy to grounded ethnography, from the “ontological” turn to the ecological turn, from presentism to future scenario-and-design thinking, and from...Read more
In her recent book Natural Reflections (Smith 2010: 2–5), B. H. Smith explains how, in the early 1950s, Marion Keech, resident of a town in the U.S. Midwest, called on...Read more
The Ontology of Technology : Considering the Potentiality of Natural-Cultural Anthropology through an Analysis of the Inuit Technological-Complex System (<Special Theme>New Horizon of Ethnography on Technology)
Author: Keiichi Omura
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This article introduced "the Human and the Social" inaugural issue of NatureCulture. In this article, Kasuga examines a broad intellectual moment, which has been characterized as a turn to ontology in anthropology, and towards networks and symmetrical approaches to humans and non-humans in...Read more