Are anthropologists makers? Towards regenerative scholarship and pluriversities

Currently, there is a shift occurring towards understanding anthropologists as makers. This is part of a recent onto/epistemic change in the discipline that emerged in the early 2000s and is now beginning to become established. In broad brush strokes, the change is from a fixist ontology to what could be considered emergence ontologies. Consequently, anthropologists are becoming more deliberate about the effects of their scholarship, and as a result, are making all sorts of things as part of their anthropological crafting. Ingold’s work has been pivotal in bringing this about. In this chapter, Gatt traces the development in her anthropological work towards paying increasing attention to what she makes as an anthropologist. This has led to a long-term plan working towards developing forms of regenerative scholarship based on the notion of the pluriversity. The chapter proceeds to present a proposal for a possible form of regenerative anthropology drawing together the educational expertise and speculative musings of Alexie, Allen, Ang, Lembo, Ravetz and Spatz.