'… an interesting and thought-provoking read for those of us ready to engage in debate with our colleagues in social anthropology.' Siân Waters, Primate Eye
Preface; 1. Prospect Tim Ingold; 2. Ensembles of biosocial relations Gisli Palsson; 3. Blurring the biological and social in human becomings Agustin Fuentes; 4. Life-in-the-making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings Eugenia Ramirez-Goicoechea; 5. Thalassemic lives as stories of becoming: mediated biologies and genetic (un)certainties Aglaia Chatjouli; 6. Shedding our selves: perspectivism, the bounded subject and the nature-culture divide Noa Vaisman; 7. Reflections on a collective brain at work: one week in the working life of an NGO-team in urban Marocco Barbara Elisabeth Götsch; 8. The habits of water: marginality and the sacralization of non-humans in North-Eastern Ghana Gaetano Mangiameli; 9. 'Bringing wood to life': lines, flows and materials in a Swazi sawmill Vito Laterza, Bob Forrester and Patience Mususa; 10. Humanity and life as the perpetual maintenance of specific efforts: a reappraisal of animism Istvan Praet; 11. Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-out-of-the-world Hayder Al-Mohammad; 12. Retrospect Gisli Palsson; Notes on the contributors; References; Index.