© S.A.C. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. In this article, we focus on some important connections between lateral approaches and the ontological turn in anthropology. Through a review of some recent ethnographic experiments influenced by one or both of these two currents we aim to delineate two distinct aspects of their connections: (1) transboundary motions between ethnographic and indigenous knowledge practices and (2) the role of materiality and spatiality in keeping such intersecting practices on the move. By carefully attending to these emergent entanglements, we will argue that they are related to the problem of translation: the constant movement across disciplinary, national and ontological boundaries. The objects of translation, we will suggest, are neither in the field, nor on our bookshelves. They are in between and on the move, and this constant motion makes anthropological work ever more complex and challenging at the same time. We call this traffic of concepts "translational movements".