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Unfinished
The Anthropology of Becoming
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English
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2017
About this book
The contributors to Unfinished explore the ethnographic essay's expressive potentials by pursuing an anthropology of becoming, which attends to the contingency of lived experience and provides new means to represent what life means and how it can be represented.
Author / Editor information
João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.
Peter Locke is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
Peter Locke is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
Reviews
"Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming promises to contribute to our understanding of this current moment of political and epistemological uncertainties, and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and writers from across the social and natural sciences and the humanities."
-- Onur Günay and Heath Pearson Somatosphere
"As complex and ambitious as it is masterfully conceived. . . . A sign of renaissance in anthropology."
-- Roberto Costa The Australian Journal of Anthropology
"Bringing the theme of becoming to the center of the anthropological debate is particularly timely in a context in which institutions, as well as the public, are discussing and interpreting society in ways that rely heavily on deterministic forms of schematism and simplification. . . . Unfinished could be an intriguing choice for professionals looking for a source of inspiration for new analytical approaches to study the dynamism of social phenomena."
-- Michele Fontefrancesco Anthropology in Action
"Although theoretically complex, the contributors never lose sight of the individuals at the heart of ethnography. . . . What stands out is its intricate and intimate representation of human experience, which imbues it with authority and stays with the reader for a long time."
-- Heather Montgomery Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword. Unfinished
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Introduction. Ethnographic Sensorium
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1 The Anthropology of Becoming
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2 Becoming Aggrieved. An Alternative Framework of Care in Black Chicago
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3 Heaven
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4 Rebellious Matter. The Poetics of Ritual Space in a Turko-Syrian Border Town
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5 Witness. Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming
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6 I Was Cannibalized by an Artist. Adriana Varejão, or Art as Flux
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7 On Negative Becoming
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8 Time Machines. The Matter of the Missing in Cyprus
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9 Horizoning. The Work of Projection in Abrupt Climate Change
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10 Meantime
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11 Hereafter
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Afterword. Zen Exercises: Anthropological Discipline and Ethics
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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List of Illustrations
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 16, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822372455
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
400
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27 illustrations (incl. 16 page color insert)
eBook ISBN:
9780822372455
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
