{"id":8115,"date":"2015-03-12T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:09:03","slug":"oad-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/03\/12\/oad-update\/","title":{"rendered":"OAD update"},"content":{"rendered":"

That stands for “Ontology Across the Disciplines,” which is the UVM faculty (and grad student) reading group that I said I’d keep<\/a> readers updated on. I’ve been a bit remiss with that, as we had a meeting 3 weeks ago and will be meeting again at 4 p.m. today.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a one-page handout (click for PDF)<\/a> I’ve sent around to participants. It includes a very quick-and-dirty (and extremely cursory) “orienting map” — really just intended to catalyze other participants to map for themselves how ontological questions have come to the fore in their own disciplines — as well as some very brief summary notes of the discussion at the last meeting, which focused on Cultural Anthropology’s “Politics of Ontology” series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today’s meeting will focus on two readings by anthropologist Todd Ram\u00f3n Ochoa: “Versions of the Dead: Kalunga, Cuban-Kongo Materiality, and Ethnography<\/a>” and “Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos: Turbulence and the Influence of the Dead in Cuban Kongo Material Culture<\/a>“.  Both come from a book project that was published as Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That stands for “Ontology Across the Disciplines,” which is the UVM faculty (and grad student) reading group that I said I’d keep readers updated on. I’ve been a bit remiss with that, as we had a meeting 3 weeks ago and will be meeting again at 4 p.m. today. 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