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This article is the outcome of a debate at the 2008 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory at the University of Manchester. The motion was that ‘Ontology is just another word for culture’. The proposers were Soumhya Venkatesan and Martin Holbraad. The opposers were Michael Carrithers, Matei Candea and Karen Sykes. The article consists of position papers from both sides, followed by a response from each to the other, and concluding remarks from the proposers. The proposers argue that the ontological turn in anthropology should be understood as an attempt to take seriously the insights of the ‘cultural’ or ‘linguistic’ turn. The opposers argue that the ontological turn, whatever its merits, does not represent a radical break with earlier anthropological approaches, and that it is marked by a number of serious intellectual flaws. The debate raises a number of fundamental questions about the nature of both anthropological comparison and anthropological critique.

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