Biosocial becomings : integrating social and biological anthropology /

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Other Authors: Ingold, Tim, 1948-, Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Prospect Tim Ingold
  • 2. Ensembles of biosocial relations Gisli Palsson
  • 3. Blurring the biological and social in human becomings Agustin Fuentes
  • 4. Life-in-the-making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings Eugenia Ramirez-Goicoechea
  • 5. Thalassemic lives as stories of becoming: mediated biologies and genetic (un)certainties Aglaia Chatjouli
  • 6. Shedding our selves: perspectivism, the bounded subject and the nature-culture divide Noa Vaisman
  • 7. Reflections on a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO-team in urban Marocco Barbara Elisabeth Götsch
  • 8. The habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana Gaetano Mangiameli
  • 9. 'Bringing wood to life': lines, flows and materials in a Swazi sawmill Vito Laterza, Bob Forrester and Patience Mususa
  • 10. Humanity and life as the perpetual maintenance of specific efforts: a reappraisal of animism Istvan Praet
  • 11. Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-out-of-the-world Hayder Al-Mohammad
  • 12. Retrospect Gisli Palsson
  • Notes on the contributors
  • References
  • Index.