ABSTRACT
This is a “peacemaking” chapter at the confrontational edges of ontological and multispecies anthropologies, respectively. Rather than fight out (or make high theory from) the differences between these approaches, the chapter shows how it is possible to use both together. Annemarie Mol’s practice-based ontologies are a particular aid in this. For this purpose, however, practitioners must open themselves to multiple, cosmopolitan ontologies among a single people; they must also be willing to track the ontic enactments of nonhumans. The chapter responds to one of the most striking features of the Osaka “World Multiple” conference from which this volume draws: the undercurrent of multi-sided refusals in which approaches became fighting words.
