Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
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- Biosocial BecomingsIntegrating Social and Biological Anthropology, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013