Unfinished

The Anthropology of Becoming
Herausgeber: Biehl, João

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369455
• ISBN-10: 0822369451
• Artikelnr.: 47446723

Autorenporträt

João Biehl and Peter Locke, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Unfinished / João Biehl and Peter Locke  ix
Introduction. Ethnographic Sensorium / João Biehl and Peter Locke  1
1. The Anthropology of Becoming / João Biehl and Peter Locke  41
2. Becoming Aggrieved / Laurence Ralph  93
3. Heaven / Angela Garcia  111
4. Rebellious Matter / Bridget Purcell  133
5. Witness / Naisargi N. Dave  151
6. I Was Cannibalized by an Artist / Lilia M. Schwarcz  173
7. On Negative Becoming / Lucas Bessire  197
8. Time Machines / Elizabeth A. Davis  217
9. Horizoning / Adriana Petryna  243
10. Meantime / Peter Locke  269
11. Hereafter / João Biehl  278
Afterword. Zen Exercises: Anthropological Discipline and Ethics / Michael
M. J. Fischer  293
Acknowledgments  317
Bibliography  319
Contributors  353
List of Illustrations  357
Index  359