Biosocial Becomings
Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology
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About this book
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. Combining wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research, the chapters demonstrate how contemporary anthropology can move forward in tandem with groundbreaking discoveries in the biological sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- 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 natureāculture 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 āBringing wood to lifeā: 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