Halfway through the conversation. Thank you for taking this on @achronon! I think all of our money problems have been solved with this conversation! But, really…I do appreciate the gentle approach towards clarity. I am liking how the various individual inputs have a way of weaving this behemoth of an idea into something can be understood. A token of appreciation to all of you that threw in your two cents. 
Not to add another load of readings your way, just an observation to those interested. Prickly Paradigm Press might interest a few individuals here. I located it after researching Phillipe Descola’s Beyond Culture and Nature (the four ontologies work sounds useful)…found another title of his, The Ecology of Others, which sounds right up @johnnydavis54 ecological alley. A few other names (Latour, Haraway) have titles in the Prickly Press. Also available for free download is David Graeber’s Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology who is also referenced above.