ABSTRACT
In this chapter we look at one specific investment after Strathern: what has become know as the Cambridge version of the ontological turn. The aim of the chapter is to highlight both the feminist genealogy of this new direction in anthropology, but also to point to parallels in queer theory. We stage a comparison between Strathern’s analysis of male initiation cults in Papua New Guinea on the one hand and Butler´s analysis of the ‘marriage pour tous’ [marriage for all] debate in France, and end the chapter by calling for a stronger dialogue between queer theory and the ontological turn in anthropology.
