What is there between us?

That question is too big to handle in any full way in a comment of this type. I will, then, as promised, mostly draw on materials from Urapmin to provide one possible answer to it. To begin with a conclusion, I do find that Zigon’s relational ethics helps me put together aspects of what I have learned about Urapmin life in new ways. Doing so, however, requires me to engage with what may perhaps be fairly local understandings of attunement and the between. I mention this because Zigon’s account is pitched at a pretty universal level. This allows him to engage universalist philosophers productively on their own terms (e.g., Arendt, Heidegger, and Nancy). But to put his theoretical program in dialogue with my material, I am going to have to attend to some more local specifications of its themes. I hope it is not reading Zigon too much against the grain to proceed as if he is open to modulations of his model that result from work in otherwheres (where things can be “otherwise” more as a fact than as the kind of aspiration it so often is in contemporary anthropological writing).