1 00:00:04,610 --> 00:00:02,360 yeah when we talk about ontology we can 2 00:00:07,190 --> 00:00:04,620 take it in two different ways we can 3 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:07,200 take it in the philosophical sense of an 4 00:00:13,370 --> 00:00:09,900 inquiry or a study into the nature of 5 00:00:15,460 --> 00:00:13,380 being so thinking about what exists and 6 00:00:18,849 --> 00:00:15,470 then we can take it in the kind of 7 00:00:21,260 --> 00:00:18,859 anthropological sense as referring to 8 00:00:24,679 --> 00:00:21,270 kind of like a set of things that a 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:24,689 particular group of people holds that 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:26,490 exists if that makes sense 11 00:00:30,620 --> 00:00:28,170 so some people have said that when we 12 00:00:32,930 --> 00:00:30,630 talk about ontology in anthropology what 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:32,940 we're really talking about is it's just 14 00:00:38,510 --> 00:00:35,730 another word for culture or worldview 15 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:38,520 but actually it's more than that we're 16 00:00:43,130 --> 00:00:40,170 not just talking about beliefs that 17 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:43,140 we're talking about kind of whole world 18 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:45,180 Mazzone e'en shamanic Society for 19 00:00:50,170 --> 00:00:47,100 example is going to contain a whole load 20 00:00:55,819 --> 00:00:50,180 of other kinds of entities beings 21 00:00:58,060 --> 00:00:55,829 different kinds of things to a kind of 22 00:01:00,410 --> 00:00:58,070 Western materialist ontology 23 00:01:03,889 --> 00:01:00,420 so yeah that's what an ontology is it's 24 00:01:05,980 --> 00:01:03,899 a it's the the sum of all the things