Biosocial Becomings

Höfundur: Tim Ingold (Útgáfa: 1)
Biosocial Becomings

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All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, it explores human life as a process of 'becoming' rather than 'being', and demonstrates that humanity is neither given in the nature of our species nor acquired through culture but forged in the process of life itself.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781107424173
Print ISBN
9781107025639
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Tim Ingold
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2013-06-13
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10

Kaflar

  • Coverpage
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Prospect
  • 2. Ensembles of biosocial relations
  • 3. Blurring the biological and social in human becomings
  • 4. Life-in-the-making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings
  • 5. Thalassaemic lives as stories of becoming: mediated biologies and genetic (un)certainties
  • 6. Shedding our selves: perspectivism, the bounded subject and the nature–culture divide
  • 7. Reflections on a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO team in urban Morocco
  • 8. The habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana
  • 9. ‘Bringing wood to life’: lines, flows and materials in a Swazi sawmill
  • 10. Humanity and life as the perpetual maintenance of specific efforts: a reappraisal of animism
  • 11. Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-out-of-the-world
  • 12. Retrospect
  • References
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Index